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INTERCHURCH     WORLD    MOVEMENT 


Speakers'  Manual 

ABRIDGED  EDITION 
APRIL  1,  1920 


INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT 

OF  NORTH  AMERICA 
45  WEST  18th  STREET  NEW  YORK  CITY 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


PART  ONE 

PROVIDENTIAL  PREPARATION  FOR  THE 
INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT 

Chapter  page 

I    Facing  the  Facts 9 

II    Origin  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 11 

III    History  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 13 

rV    Purpose  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 17 

PART  TW^O 

A  PRACTICAL  PROGRAM  FOR  CHRISTIAN 

COOPERATION  page 

V     Survey  Group 21 

Home  Missions  Survey  Department 22 

American  Education  Survey  Department 29 

American  ReHgious  Education  Survey  Department    .  34 

American  Hospitals  and  Homes  Survey  Department  .  35 

Ministerial  Support  and  Relief  Survey  Department    .  40 

Foreign  Survey  Department 43 

VI     Spiritual  Resources  Department 48 

VII    Life  Work  Department 51 

VIII    Stewardship  Department 55 

IX    Missionary  Education  Department 59 

X    Industrial  Relations  Department 65 

XI    Field  Department 71 

XII    Publicity  Department 73 

XIII  Periodical  Department 75 

XIV  Literature  Department 77 

XV    Women's  Activities  Department 79 

XVI    Laymen's  Activities  Department 83 

XVII    Lantern  Slide  Department 85 

Note:  Chapters  X  VIII  to  XXI  omitted  from  this  abridged  edition. 


PART- THREE 


Chapter 
XXIII 

XXV 

XXVI 

XXVII 

XXVIII 

XXX 


GENERAL  page 

Official  Statements  by  Denominational  Bodies    ....  89 

General  Budget  Statement 104 

Note:  Chapter  XXIV  omitted  from  this  edition. 

Officers  and  Committees 107 

State  Rural  Survey  Supervisors 121 

General  Talking  Points 124 

Advertising  and  Distribution  Department 127 

Sales  Department 129 

Note:  Chapter  XXIX  omitted  from  this  edition. 

Forward  Movements  and  Officers  in  Charge 131 


PART  ONE 


9 

FACING    THE   FACTS 

CHAPTER  I 

FACING  THE  FACTS 

TITANIC  forces  have  been  released  in  the  world  today.  Some  of 
them  are  constructive;  most  of  them  appear  to  be  destructive.  The 
hammers  of  the  world-smiths  are  beating  out  a  new  planet.  After 
the  crisis  of  the  centuries,  civilization  is  being  remade;  perhaps  re- 
born. While  it  is  true  that  the  church  cannot  perish,  that  the  gates 
of  hell  cannot  prevail  against  it;  that  is  not  enough.  For  the  church 
merely  to  exist  and  gradually  change  in  these  critical  times  would 
be  for  her  to  be  false  to  the  very  genius  of  her  divine  mission  in  the 
world.  The  church  must  not  simply  survive  the  storm  that  shakes 
the  world;  she  must  take  her  place  as  leader  among  the  constructive 
forces  of  society.  Jesus  has  a  message  for  today;  the  church  must 
be  his  tongue  to  speak  it.  He  has  a  work  to  be  done  for  tortured  and 
despairing  humanity;  the  church  must  be  his  feet  to  run  errands  of 
mercy  and  his  hands  to  reach  out  and  heal  the  suffering  peoples  of  the 
earth.  No  doubt  there  are  some  tasks,  some  details  of  service,  that 
can  be  met  by  small  groups  working  independently.  But  in  the  midst  of 
a  need  so  vast  as  that  which  confronts  Christendom  today,  in  a  world 
war-torn,  famine-stricken,  and  well-nigh  crazed  with  want  and  fear — 
to  answer  to  such  a  summons  as  sounds  today  in  the  ears  of  all  who 
would  follow  the  Master  of  mankind — no  other  method  could  be 
thought  of  except  the  method  of  united  effort,  of  universal  Christian 
cooperation.    The  temper  of  the  times  is  the  challenge  to  the  church. 

A  Glance  at  Our  Parish 

The  approximate  population  of  the  world  is  1,640,000,000.  Of 
this  number  only  586,000,000,  or  36  per  cent.,  is  even  nominally  Christian. 
There  are  one  billion  people  to  whom  the  truths  of  Christianity  have 
not  been  brought  home. 

The  world  has  been  left  distraught  by  the  war.  Nearly  every 
country  on  the  globe  has  suffered  inestimable  material  and  spiritual 
losses.  Europe,  which  formerly  made  large  contributions  towards 
aggressive  Christian  work,  now  is  unable  to  care  for  her  own  and  cries 
aloud  to  America  for  help  in  the  hour  of  her  extremity. 

Asia  contains  nearly  half  the  population  of  the  world — approxi- 
mately 800,000,000.  Of  this  vast  population,  only  a  few  millions  are 
Christian. 

Africa's  130,000,000  people  present  several  immense  problems. 
South  Africa,  with  its  10,000,000  population  is  Europeanized  and 
mainly  Christian.    North  Africa,  with  40,000,000  inhabitants,  is  largely 


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FACING   THE   FACTS 

Mohammedan.  Central  Africa,  with  80,000,000  inhabitants,  is  pagan. 
The  Mohammedans  of  the  north  are  conducting  a  persistent  propaganda 
to  win  the  pagans  of  Central  Africa  to  Mohammedanism,  and  with 
some  success.  It  is  reported  that  for  every  33  natives  who  become 
Christians,  100  become  Mohammedans.  The  African  field  of  missionary 
work  contains  120,000,000  people. 

India's  population  is  315,000,000;  of  this  great  multitude,  evan- 
gelical Christians  number  approximately  three-fifths  of  one  per  cent., 
while  one-half  of  one  per  cent,  are  Catholics.  China's  population  is 
close  to  400,000,000;  one- tenth  of  one  per  cent,  are  evangelical  Christians; 
three-eighths  of  one  per  cent,  are  Catholics.  Japan's  population  is 
54,000,000;  one-sixth  of  one  per  cent,  are  evangelical  Christians;  one- 
seventh  of  one  per  cent,  are  Cathohcs. 

Looking  at  Ourselves 

And  what  about  America?  Our  country,  too,  has  real  need.  How 
many  persons  never  see  the  inside  of  a  church?  How  many  children 
do  not  know  what  a  Sunday  school  is?  That  the  number  is  staggering 
is  already  indicated  by  the  early  returns  of  the  Interchurch  surveys. 

The  racial  problems  are  as  acute  here  as  in  Europe.  There  are, 
for  instance,  between  three  and  four  miUion  Poles  in  this  country  (30 
per  cent,  of  them  iUiterate),  and  one  million  Czecho-Slovaks;  there 
are  more  Italians  in  New  York  City  than  there  are  in  Rome,  and  more 
Jews  than  there  are  in  Jerusalem;  there  are  300,000  Indians  and  400,000 
Mexicans  in  our  population;  there  are  special  problems  presented  by  the 
native  Alaskan  as  well  as  by  the  population  of  Hawaii  and  the  West 
Indies;  there  is  a  Negro  question;  there  are  questions  appertaining 
to  various  itinerant  groups  who  have  few  opportunities  for  hearing 
the  word  of  God;  there  are  a  many  other  questions  all  pressing  for 
an  answer. 

For  the  Healing  of  the  Nations 

These  are  a  few  of  the  facts  that  the  church  faces  today,  facts 
which  have  been  made  more  insistent  by  the  war.  There  are  more 
millions  discouraged  and  sick  of  life  today  than  ever  before  since  the 
dawn  of  Christianity.  Nevertheless,  there  are  millions  of  other  people, 
quickened  with  the  gospel  of  the  brotherhood  of  all  men,  who  realize 
that  in  order  that  these  despondent  people  may  not  perish,  light  must 
be  brought  to  them,  and  hope  put  in  their  hearts.  But  conditions  will 
never  be  bettered,  nor  will  this  be  made  a  new  and  better  world,  unless 
and  until  the  Christian  forces  essay  unselfishly  and  unstintingly,  in  the 
spirit  of  Jesus,  to  work  together  for  the  good  of  all.  The  recognition  of 
this  fact  is  the  very  soul  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 


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CHAPTER  II 

ORIGIN  OF  THE  INTERCHURCH   WORLD 
MOVEMENT 

THE  Cleveland  Interboard  Conference,  which  met  April  30,  1919,  to 
take  the  final  steps  in  the  organization  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement,  stated  the  situation,  in  its  official  report,  in  the  following  words: 
*'It  seems  to  us  to  be  of  extraordinary  significance  that  it  [The  Inter- 
church Movement]  should  come  into  being  at  a  time  when  the  cataclysm 
of  the  world  war  has  prepared  the  minds  of  men  for  religious  impressions, 
thrown  down  the  barriers  to  missionary  advance  and  created  an  atmos- 
phere favorable  to  the  review  and  readjustment  of  industrial,  social,  and 
international  relations  in  accordance  with  the  teachings  of  Christ."      ^ 

An  Era  of  Great  Movements 

Four  great  movements,  that  have  stirred  the  soul  of  the  church 
and  quickened  the  life  of  the  world,  may  be  considered  the  direct  fore- 
runners of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  First  among  these  was 
the  Student  Movement,  of  which  Henry  Drummond  was  one  of  the 
inspired  leaders.  This  movement  later  came  to  be  called  the  Student 
Volunteer  Movement  and  through  its  inspiration  and  work  many  thou- 
sands of  missionary  recruits  have  been  sent  forth  from  the  colleges  and 
universities  of  America,  Canada  and  Great  Britain.  From  this  grew 
the  Missionary  Education  Movement,  the  aim  of  which  was  to  bring 
the  message  of  missions  to  the  rank  and  file  of  youth  outside  the  college 
circles.  After  these  two  great  crusades,  came  the  Laymen's  Missionary 
Movement,  which  taught  the  American  business  man  what  missions 
meant  and  what  the  claim  of  the  world  was  upon  his  life  and  fortune. 
At  about  the  same  time  the  Men  and  Religion  Forward  Movement,  im- 
pressed the  claims  of  Christ  upon  the  life  of  the  men  of  America  in  a 
remarkable  campaign  during  1911-12. 

Coincident  with  these  great  enterprises  certain  other  interchurch 
organizations  were  being  developed,  such  as  the  World's  Sunday  School 
Association,  the  great  Bible  societies  on  both  sides  of  the  sea,  the 
Christian  Endeavor  Society,  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association, 
The  Young  Women's  Christian  Association,  and  such  humanitarian 
agencies  as  the  Red  Cross.  All  of  these  had  demonstrated  that  when 
definite  work  was  under  contemplation  Christian  people  could  work 
together. 


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ORIGIN   OF   THE   MOVEMENT 

The  Federal  Council  of  Churches 

For  a  number  of  years  the  World's  Evangelical  Alliance  has  been 
sending  out  messages  to  Christians  of  Great  Britain  Canada  and 
America,  urging  them  to  unite  in  work  and  prayer  for  the  evangeliza- 
tion of  the  world.  Later  came  the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of 
Christ  in  America,  which  at  once  took  its  place  as  providing  the  most 
feasible  program  thus  far  devised  for  the  actual  cooperation  of  the 
churches  in  multiple  forms  of  service. 

The  movement  which  finally  culminated  in  the  organization  of 
the  Federal  Council,  had  its  early  beginning  in  local  communities, 
the  first  federation  of  churches  having  been  the  New  York  City  Federa- 
tion of  Churches  in  1895.  This  was  followed  in  1902  by  the  Massachusetts 
Federation  of  Churches. 

The  first  meeting  looking  directly  toward  church  federation — 
entirely  of  a  cooperative  character  and  in  no  sense  looking  toward 
organic  union — was  held  in  New  York  City  in  1900.  It  authorized 
action  that  brought  about  at  Philadelphia,  the  following  year,  the 
National  Federation  of  Churches,  whose  membership  was  composed  of 
representatives  of  local  churches  and  federations. 

In  1905,  a  conference  of  delegates,  appointed  by  the  highest 
ecclesiastical  and  advisory  bodies  of  the  evangelical  denominations, 
was  held  in  Carnegie  Hall,  New  York  City.  This  conference  adopted 
the  constitution  of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in  America, 
which,  after  ratification  by  the  constituent  bodies  in  its  fellowship, 
brought  about  the  final  and  complete  organization  of  the  Federal 
Council  at  Philadelphia  in  1908.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the  work 
of  the  Federal  Council,  for  more  than  a  decade,  had  a  great  deal  to  do 
with  preparing  public  opinion  and  church  sentiment  for  the  advent 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

The  Spirit  of  Cooperation 

It  was  inevitable  that  from  these  seeds  of  cooperation,  sown  through 
a  generation  of  consecrated  prayer  and  effort,  such  an  organization  as 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement  of  North  America  should  have 
grown,  a  movement  planned  to  coordinate  the  efforts,  the  gifts  and  the 
life  service  of  America  and  Canada  for  world-wide  humanity. 

There  is  no  thought  that  this  new  crusade  will  supersede  the  other 
interchurch  organizations  already  in  the  field.  On  the  contrary,  the 
Federal  Council,  for  example,  will  continue  its  splendid  work  of  inform- 
ing and  inspiring  the  churches  for  their  national  and  international 
tasks;  but  at  the  same  time  it  will  cooperate  in  every  possible  way  with 
the  Interchurch  plans.  In  fact,  many  of  its  leading  officials  are  helping 
directly  in  the  work  of  the  Movement. 


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CHAPTER  III 

HISTORY  OF  THE  INTERCHURCH  WORLD 
MOVEMENT 

THE  first  definite  steps  looking  towards  the  organization  of  the  In- 
terchurch  World  Movement  of  North  America  were  taken  on  Decem- 
ber 17,  1918,  when  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  representatives  of  Ameri- 
can Home  and  Foreign  Missions  Boards  and  of  certain  interdenomina- 
tional and  undenominational  agencies  (see  below)  met  in  New  York 
City.  The  call  to  this  conference  had  been  issued  by  the  Executive 
Committee  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States,  South  (See  Chapter  XXIII).  It  was  the  unanimous  judg- 
ment of  the  delegates  to  the  Conference  that  the  time  had  come  for  the 
working  bodies  of  the  several  denominations  so  to  relate  their  activities 
as  to  present  a  united  front  to  the  world. 

It  is  noteworthy  that  at  about  the  same  time  an  important  meeting 
at  Atlantic  City,  called  by  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ 
in  America,  passed  a  similar  unanimous  judgment. 

The  Birth  Certificate 

This  Conference  appointed  a  Committee  of  Twenty  to  draft  a 
plan  of  interchurch  cooperation  and  report  to  certain  interdenomina- 
tional agencies  which  were  to  meet  the  following  month.  Meetings 
were  held  in  January,  1919,  of  the  Foreign  Missions  Conference  of 
North  America,  the  Home  Missions  Council,  the  Council  of  Church 
Boards  of  Education,  the  Sunday  School  Council  of  Evangelical  Denomi- 
nations in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  the  Federation  of  Women's 
Boards  of  Foreign  Missions  of  North  America,  and  the  Council  of  Women 
for  Home  Missions.  These  several  Boards  unanimously  endorsed  the 
statement,  or  report,  and  the  tentative  program  outlined  by  the  Com- 
mittee of  Twenty.  The  endorsement  by  these  six  cooperating  bodies 
became,  in  effect,  the  official  birth  certificate  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement.  A  little  later  the  action  of  these  agencies  was  approved  by 
more  than  60  denominational  boards,  which  number  has  since  been 
increased  considerably. 

The  relationship  of  the  Movement  to  both  the  denominations,  as 
such,  and  to  these  interdenominational  bodies  was  defined  by  the 
General  Committee  of  the  Movement  at  a  meeting,  held  September 
24-26,  191Q,  in  the  form  of  an  accepted  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Denominational  Relations  as  follows: 


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"It  is  of  first  importance  that  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
shall  include  all  the  evangelical  churches  as  such. 

"As  soon  as  the  churches  themselves  deem  it  best,  the  evan- 
gelical interdenominational  and  undenominational  agencies  should 
be  related  to  the  Movement  in  order  that  American  Protestantism 
may  present  a  united  front.  Meanwhile,  the  various  evangelical  inter- 
denominational and  undenominational  agencies  should  be  invited  to 
cooperate  in  such  ways  as  do  not  involve  organic  relation  to  the  Move- 
ment. So  far  as  the  leaders  of  these  interdenominational  and  un- 
denominational agencies  have  expressed  themselves  on  the  subject, 
they  beheve  in  the  wisdom  of  this  pohcy." 

During  the  first  three  months  of  1919,  seventeen  regional  con- 
ferences were  held  in  important  centers  of  the  United  States,  in  order 
to  ascertain  the  feeling  of  all  sections  of  the  country.  At  these  con- 
ferences the  plans  and  purposes  of  the  Movement  were  discussed  in 
detail  and  in  this  way  many  valuable  suggestions  were  gained. 

In  April,  1919,  the  Pastors'  Conference  was  held  at  Pittsburgh, 
when  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  leading  ministers  assembled  from 
all  parts  of  the  country,  to  consider  the  entire  program  of  the  Move- 
ment.     The   program   was   unanimously    approved   at   this  meeting. 

The  Cleveland  Interboard  Conference  (April  29-30  and  May  i,  1919), 
representing  the  majority  of  the  official  denominational  boards, 
and  societies  of  the  United  States,  marked  the  highest  point  of  the 
preparatory  stages  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  The  idea 
and  purposes  of  the  Movement  were  thoroughly  debated.  Many 
questions  were  asked  and  answered.  More  than  five  hundred  men 
and  women  who  are  most  closely  and  officially  connected  with  the 
home  and  foreign  missionary  work  and  benevolent  boards  of  the  evan- 
gelical churches  of  North  America  attended  the  Conference.  Findings, 
unanimously  adopted  at  Cleveland,  expressed  the  conviction  that  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement  was  both  providential  and  imperative. 

During  the  Summer  and  early  Fall  a  number  of  important  con- 
ferences were  held  by  the  various  departments  of  the  Movement.  Among 
these  were  the  Missionary  Education  Movement  summer  conferences 
conducted  this  year  under  the  direction  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement),  and  conferences  of  the  Survey  Department,  the  Life  Work 
Department,  the  Spiritual  Resources  Department,  and  the  Industrial 
Relations  Department. 

The  most  important  conference  held  during  1919,  that  is  to  say 
since  the  inception  of  the  Movement,  was  the  third  meeting  of  the 
General  Committee.  This  conference  met  in  September  in  Cleveland 
and  acted  as  a  clearing  house  for  all  the  work  of  the  different  depart- 


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ments  so  far  as  they  had  been  organized  and  were  functioning.  At 
this  conference  the  activities  of  the  past  and  plans  for  the  future  were 
presented.  The  conference  agreed,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
cooperating  communions,  to  conduct  a  united  simultaneous  financial 
campaign  sometime  next  Spring;  a  resolution  was  adopted  by  the  con- 
ference enabling  more  religious  bodies  to  take  part  in  the  Movement; 
and  finally,  a  program  for  the  Industrial  Relations  Department  was 
laid  out. 

A  Leaders'  Training  Conference  was  held  in  Atlantic  City,  No- 
vember 5,  6  and  7,  19 19.  Every  phase  of  the  Movement  was  explained 
by  speciahsts  to  the  men  and  women  of  twelve  teams  scheduled  to 
start  out  the  first  of  December  to  hold  conferences  in  every  state  in  the 
Union  and  so  spread  the  Christian  message  of  the  hour  throughout 
the  United  States.  Between  December  ist  and  19th,  sixty-seven  such 
conferences  were  held,  the  results  in  attendance  and  enthusiasm  more 
than  justifying  expectations. 

The  World  Survey  Conference,  held  at  Atlantic  City  January  7-10, 
1920,  was  the  climax  of  the  Movement  up  to  that  date.  Of  the  total 
registration  of  1,732  about  i  ^000  were  official  delegates  of  the  forty- two 
cooperating  denominations  and  their  boards. 

The  home  surveys  told  a  fresh  and  thrilling  story.    The  emergency  ♦ 
needs  of  the  foreign  field,  and  the  new  approach  and  opportunity  created  [ 
by  the  war  were  equally  impressive.    Having  faced  the  facts,  the  great  ' 
budgets  seemed  not  beyond  the  needs.    April  25-May  2  was  fixed  upon 
for  the  United  Simultaneous  Financial  Ingathering,  the  suggestion  that 
this  be  postponed  till  February,  1921,  not  appealing  to  the  delegates. 
The  last  third  of  the  conference  was  given  up  to  free  discussion  from  the 
floor  of  reports  of  committees.    A  few  amendments  were  made,  but 
the  conference  was  remarkable  for  the  unanimity  with. which  preliminary  ^ 
work  and  suggested  programs  were  endorsed.    All  felt  that  the  Movement  ^ 
had  arrived,  that  we  were,  in  Dr.  Taylor's  words,  '4n  striking  distance  » 
of  victory."  / 


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DATE  SCHEDULES 

United  Simultaneous  Financial  Ingathering,  April  25  to  May  2,  1920. 
May  to  September,  Conservation  Conferences,  Missionary  Education 
and  General  Interchurch  World  Movement  Conferences. 

Missionary  Education  Conferences,  1920: 

Winter  Park,  Florida,  June  3  to  June  10. 

Blue  Ridge,  N.  C,  June  25  to  July  5. 

Silver  Bay,  N.  Y.,  July  9  to  July  19. 

Estes  Park,  Colo.,  July  9  to  July  19. 

Asilomar,  Calif.,  July  13  to  July  23. 

Ocean  Park,  Me.,  July  20  to  July  30. 

Lake  Geneva,  Wis.,  July  23  to  August  2. 

Seabeck,  Wash.,  July  28  to  August  7. 


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CHAPTER  IV 

PURPOSE  OF  THE  INTERCHURCH  WORLD 
MOVEMENT 


T 


HE  three-fold  purpose  of  the  Movement,  as  officially  defined  by 
the  Cleveland  Interboard  Conference,  is: 


1.  To  undertake  a  scientific  survey  of  the  world's  needs  from 
the  standpoint  of  the  responsibility  of  evangeUcal  Christianity; 

2.  To  project  a  cooperative  community  and  world  program  to 
meet  the  needs  arising  from  the  survey; 

3.  To  discover  and  develop  the  resources  of  life,  money  and 
prayer  required  by  the  program  fixed. 

A  Combination  in  Restraint  of  Waste 

This  Conference  also  declared  that  the  Movement  is  '^a  cooper- 
ative effort  of  the  missionary,  educational,  and  other  benevolent  agencies 
of  the  evangeUcal  churches  of  the  United  States  and  Canada  to  secure 
the  necessary  resources  of  men  and  money  and  power  required  for  those 
tasks;  that  it  is  a  spiritual  undertaking  of  survey,  education,  and 
inspiration;  that  it  is  an  instrumentality  of  cooperation  and  coordination 
of  administrative  agencies,  designed  to  serve,  not  to  supplant  them." 

On  December  17,  1918,  the  Committee  of  Twenty,  described  in 
Chapter  III,  outUned  the  purpose  of  the  Movement  to  be  "to  present 
a  unified  program  of  Christian  service  and  to  unite  the  evangelical 
churches  of  North  America  in  the  performance  of  their  common  task, 
thus  making  available  the  values  of  spiritual  power  which  come  from 
unity  and  coordinated  Christian  effort,  and  meeting  the  unique  oppor- 
tunities of  the  new  era." 

Christian  Cooperation  Not  Church  Union 

The  Report  of  the  Cleveland  Interboard  Conference  strictly  de- 
limited the  function  of  the  Movement  in  the  following  words:  "We 
confirm  our  definite  understanding,  that  this  is  not  an  ecclesiastical 
•movement  nor  an  effort  at  organic  church  union.  It  will  not  disturb 
the  autonomy  or  interfere  with  the  administration  of  any  church  or 
board.  Neither  will  it  undertake  to  administer  or  expend  funds  for 
any  purpose  beyond  its  own  proper  administrative  expenses.  It  has 
a  definite  and  temporary  mission.     It  will  not  duplicate  or  conflict 


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PURPOSE   OF   THE   MOVEMENT 

with  Other  denominational  agencies.  It  does  not  assume  responsibihty 
or  authority  on  questions  of  church  or  missionary  poUcy,  recognizing 
that  these  belong  to  the  coordinating  agencies  and  organizations." 

Scope  of  Surveys 

Referring  to  the  surveys  upon  which  the  nation-wide  appeal  for 
money  and  workers  is  to  be  based,  the  Conference  made  this  compre- 
hensive statement:  ''We  understand  that  these  surveys  will  not  only 
cover  those  fields  commonly  classified  as  missionary,  but  will  include 
all  evangehstic  effort:  the  religious  nurture  of  children;  the  enhstment 
and  special  preparation  of  youth  for  life  service;  the  educational  systems 
of  the  church  at  home  and  abroad — theological,  educational  and 
professional;  the  philanthropic  institutions — hospitals,  orphanages, 
asylums  and  child-welfare  agencies;  the  means  for  the  support  of  the 
ministry  in  retirement  as  well  as  in  active  service;  and  the  contribution 
of  the  church  to  the  solution  of  the  definite  social  and  industrial  problems 
of  the  new  day  of  readjustment  and  reconstruction." 

How  well  these  instructions  are  being  carried  forward,  in  a  concrete 
way,  may  be  judged  by  a  reading  of  the  several  chapters  in  Part  II 
of  this  Manual. 


PART  TWO 


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CHAPTER  V 

SURVEY  GROUP 

THE  program  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  calls  for  an  un- 
precedented degree  of  cooperation  among  the  churches  of  North 
America  in  their  entire  missionary  program  at  home  and  abroad.  Its 
two-fold  responsibiHty  is  first  to  find  the  facts  and  second  to  face  the 
facts.  Once  the  facts  are  discovered  and  confronted,  the  titanic  task 
of  the  cooperating  Christian  churches  will  be  to  make  the  kingdoms  of 
this  world  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  his  Christ.  ^^ 

Finding  the  Facts 

The  first  of  these  two  major  responsibilities  rests  on  the  shoulders 
of  the  Survey  Group  of  the  Movement.  It  must  learn  what  is 
the  truth,  if  the  truth  is  to  make  us  free.  In  order  to  acquire  the 
necessary  information,  not  only  upon  which  to  base  a  budget  but  to 
plan  a  world-wide  program  of  action,  an  elaborate  system  of  home 
and  foreign  surveys  has  been  worked  out,  and  is  now  well  under  way. 

The  American  Survey  Units  deal  respectively  with  home  missions, 
education,  reUgious  education,  hospitals  and  homes,  ministerial  salaries, 
pensions  and  relief. 

The  Foreign  Survey  Department  is  making  an  entirely  new  study 
of  the  present  situation  and  needs  in  the  work  of  American  evangeUcal 
agencies  in  all  foreign  fields. 


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Home  Missions  Survey  Department 

If  the  churches  of  Christ  are  to  serve  most  adequately  the  communi- 
ties in  which  they  are  situated,  and  at  the  same  time  serve  them 
most  economically,  they  must  guard  against  an  unequal  distribution 
of  forces.  The  Interchurch  World  Movement  is  laboring  to  stimulate 
a  feeling  of  common  purpose  and  common  destiny  among  the  churches 
by  means  of  a  common  understanding  of  common  tasks,  and  by  help- 
ing the  several  churches  of  any  given  community  to  plan  their  programs 
together. 

The  Department  will  seek  a  more  scientific  method  for  determin- 
ing the  location  of  churches.  In  all  probability,  its  surveys  will  also 
result  in  the  determining  of  a  comprehensive  and  adequate  program 
which  can  be  budgeted  in  terms  of  money,  leaders,  and  policies  in- 
volved. 

Heretofore,  the  location  of  churches  and  the  decisions  as  to  their 
programs  have  usually  been  determined  from  the  denominational 
angle  with  little  regard  for  the  plans  and  activities  of  any  other  church. 
The  making  of  comprehensive  maps,  showing  churches  of  all  denomina- 
tions, and  the  furnishing  of  these  maps  to  each  denominational  mission 
board  and  to  each  missionary  superintendent  having  supervision  of 
work  within  the  state  are  among  the  first  steps  in  the  cooperative  plan- 
ning of  church  enterprise. 

After  all  the  local  and  community  factors  have  been  taken  into 
account,  the  specific  needs  of  each  individual  church  for  property, 
equipment,  and  staff — over  a  period  of  five  years — will  be  set  down. 
All  churches  that  may  properly  be  classified  as  home  mission  projects- 
will  be  admitted  to  the  budget  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

City  Surveys 

The  Department,  through  its  surveys,  will  study  the  problems  of 
the  city  as  a  whole — such  problems  as  housing,  health,  recreation, 
delinquency,  and  the  like.  These  will  all  be  studied  in  relation  to  all 
the  evangelical  churches,  for  ,it  is  obvious  that  the  needs  cannot  be 
adequately  met  by  any  one  church  or  group  of  churches. 


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Rural  Surveys 

In'  each  rural  section,  a  county  supervisor  is  appointed  and  a 
county  survey  council  which  directs  the  supervisor  and  passes  upon 
the  findings.  This  council  is  made  up  of  representative  ministers 
and  laymen  of  all  denominations  in  the  county.  Usually  the  super- 
visor is  one  of  the  younger  trained  rural  ministers  whose  church 
is  willing  to  release  him  temporarily  for  this  service.  The  super- 
visor visits  each  community  and  each  local  church  where,  in  consul- 
tation with  the  people  the  questionnaires  are  filled  out.  The  expense 
of  the  survey,  in  each  case,  is  met  by  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

Function  of  the  Department 

The  Home  Missions  Survey  is,  first  of  all,  engaged  in  discover- 
ing the  unchurched  areas  and  groups,  and  the  unchristian  factors  in 
the  life  of  the  United  States,  Alaska,  Hawaii,  and  the  West  Indies. 
It  will  also  aid  the  churches  to  estimate  their  own  material  and  spir- 
itual resources  and  to  discover  ways  and  means  for  developing  these 
to  their  highest  degree  of  usefulness,  so  that  the  individual  church 
may  shoulder  its  full  share  of  community  service. 

Special  Surveys 

Special  questionnaires  have  been  provided  for  Negro  churches 
and  communities,  for  distinctly  immigrant  communities,  for  small 
mining  and  other  industrial  communities,  for  Spanish-Americans, 
for  Orientals  and  for  American  Indians.  Special  studies  are  also 
being  made  of  exceptional  groups,  such  as  the  lumber  jacks,  migra- 
tory harvest  workers,  and  laborers  in  the  small  fruit  and  canning 
factories. 


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SURVEY   GROUP — TALKING  POINTS 

HOME  MISSIONS  SURVEY 

Citygrams 

America  is  becoming  city-minded,  but  the  church  remains  countri- 
fied. 

The  city  church  has  thought  too  much  of  services,  and  too  little  of 
service. 

Unadaptability  has  sounded  the  death  knell  of  many  a  rural  church 
within  the  city. 

City  folks  are  renters  and  hence  have  little  community  interest. 

The  city  is  the  battleground  of  faith  and  atheism. 

The  church  doesn't  dominate  the  city,  but  the  city  dominates 
America. 

If  America  is  to  be  saved,  the  city  must  be  redeemed. 

There  is  no  adverse  condition  but  that  somewhere  the  church  has 
conquered  it. 

When  city  churches  cooperate  they  will  conquer  the  most  bafi]ing 
conditions. 

The  church  can  save  the  city,  and  through  the  city  save  America. 

In  the  New  York  Metropolitan  area  about  2 ,000  Protestant  churches 
face  the  social  and  spiritual  needs  of  almost  2,000,000  homes. 

With  nearly  three  out  of  four  persons  foreign-born  or  of  foreign 
parentage  and  with  thirty-six  languages  spoken,  the  New  York  area 
becomes  one  of  the  world's  greatest  missionary  fields. 

Why  City  Churches  Sell  Out 
(Suggested  outline  of  address) 

Unless  it  win  the  city,  the  church  loses  out.  Failing  to  adapt  its 
program  to  the  changed  population,  the  church  has  been  steadily  losing 
grip  on  the  city. 

I.     City  growth  a  modern  phenomenon. 

II.  Three  elements  in  American  city: — Rural  emigrants,  European 
immigrants,  city  born. 

III.    The  city  church,  still  rural  and  without  program  for  immigrant 
or  city  born,  must  reach  these  elements  or  sell  out. 

{Vide  six  following  paragraphs  for  facts) 


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SURVEY   GROUP — TALKING   POINTS — Coflt. 

I.  Amazing  Growth  of  Cities 

In  1910,  36  million  people,  or  2>^.^%  of  the  nation's  population, 
lived  in  778  cities  of  8,000  and  over.  In  1800  there  were  but  six  cities  with 
a  population  of  8,000  and  over — Philadelphia,  New  York,  Baltimore, 
Boston,  Charleston  and  Salem,  with  a  combined  population  of  about 
200,000  or  4%  of  the  entire  population.  In  1910  nearly  one- tenth  of  the 
country's  population  lived  in  three  cities — New  York,  Chicago  and 
Philadelphia.  The  majority  of  the  people  in  the  United  States  today 
live  in  cities  of  2,500  and  over. 

While  London  is  probably  2,000  years  old,  four-fifths  of  its  growth 
has  taken  place  during  the  last  century.  Paris  is  more  than  four  times 
as  large  as  it  was  in  1800,  and  Petrograd,  up  to  the  outbreak  of  the  war, 
had  increased  nearly  three-fold  in  75  years. 

2.  Metropolitan  Districts 

There  are  twenty-five  Metropolitan  districts  in  the  United  States 
whose  centers  are  cities  containing  200,000  or  more  inhabitants,  and 
whose  area  includes  land  approximately  within  10  miles  of  the  city 
limits. 

These  areas,  constituting  the  great  ''City  Problems"  of  the  United 
States  are  New  York,  Chicago,  Philadelphia,  Boston,  Pittsburgh,  St. 
Louis,  San  Francisco-Oakland,  Baltimore,  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Minneapolis,  St.  Paul,  Detroit,  Buffalo,  Los  Angeles,  Milwaukee,  Provi- 
dence, Washington,  New  Orleans,  Kansas  City  (Mo.  and  Kansas,) 
Louisville,  Rochester,  Seattle,  Indianapolis,  Denver. 

J.  Where  the  People  Come  From 

The  remarkable  increase  in  population  of  our  cities  is  to  be  accounted 
for  in  three  ways: 

First:  By  emigration  from  the  rural  sections  of  America. 

Second:  By  immigration  from  European  countries. 

Third:  By  natural  increase. 

In  the  early  years  of  our  national  history  cities  grew  largely  through 
emigration  from  the  rural  sections,  and  in  some  of  the  southern  and 
western  cities  of  the  United  States  the  population  is  even  now^  being 
mainly  recruited  from  the  rural  sections.  In  most  of  the  large  industrial 
centers,  however,  the  alien  immigrant  has  been  the  principal  source  of 
population  increase. 


SURVEY   GROUP — TALKING   POINTS — Coflt. 

4.  100%  American? 

Passaic,  N.  J.,  leads  with  a  foreign  born  element  of  52%  of  its  total 
population  of  54,773.  Lawrence,  Mass.,  comes  next  with  48.1%. 
There  are  eight  other  cities  in  which  foreign-born  whites  constitute  more 
than  forty  per  cent,  of  the  total  population,  namely:  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J., 
New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  New  Britain,  Conn.,  Lowell, 
Mass . ,  Shenendoah ,  Pa . ,  New  York ,  N .  Y . ,  Holyoke ,  Mass .  In  contrast 
with  these  typical  American  cities,  the  foreign-born  population  of  Paris 
is  about  8%,  of  London  3%,  and  of  Berlin  2.6%.  Immigration,  there- 
fore, is  peculiarly  a  problem  of  the  American  city,  and  presents  to  the 
State  a  challenge  in  citizenship  and  to  the  church  a  challenge  in  religion. 
The  foreign-born  element  is  largest  in  northern  and  eastern  cities. 

5.  The  Misfit  Church 
The  city  church  has  to  sell  out  because  it  is  a  misfit.  In  every  city 
of  200,000  or  over,  the  rural  emigrant,  who  gave  the  city  church  its 
traditions,  has  become  a  minor  factor  compared  with  the  alien  immigrant 
and  city-born  elements.  Nevertheless,  the  city  church,  with  few  ex- 
ceptions, has  remained  a  rural  church.  In  every  city,  down- town 
churches  have  been  forced  out  of  business,  because,  being  bound  by  rural 
traditions,  they  had  no  adequate  program  to  reach  the  alien  and  city  born. 
In  New  York  City  alone  68  Protestant  churches  have  been  abandoned 
since  1900,  while  only  24  churches  have  been  built,  16  of  which  were  for 
Negro  congregations.  In  the  down- town  section  of  Philadelphia, 
where  there  were  once  79  Protestant  churches,  there  are  left  today  only 
38 .  The  Interchurch  World  Movement  is  seeking  to  point  out  accurately 
the  changed  conditions  facing  the  church  in  the  modern  city,  and  to 
evolve  a  method  and  a  program  to  meet  successfully  the  new  conditions. 

6.  A  Down-Town  Church  Program 
The  seven-day-a-week  theatre  must  be  balanced  by  a  seven-day-a- 
week  church.  Its  pulpit  must  be  strongly  evangelistic,  and  educational 
upon  all  social  and  moral  problems .  The  church  must  be  a  church  home 
or  club  for  travelers,  visitors  and  transients,  equipped  with  information 
bureaus,  reading  and  rest  rooms  and  every  other  device  to  make  the 
stranger  feel  at  home.  The  church  must  be  a  recreational  center, 
offering  illustrated  lectures  and  moving  pictures  and  the  opportunity  for 
religious  pageants  and  educational  dramatics.  The  church  must  take 
the  lead  in  the  play  life  of  the  people. 


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SURVEY   GROUP — TALKING   POINTS — Cont. 

A  Strong  Ally 

If  aliens  are  won  to  Christ  they  will  be  an  entirely  new  force  and  one 
of  tremendous  power  for  righteousness, 
Because — 

1.  They  are  virile  in  body.  America  needs  the  infusion  of  their 
stamina  and  vigor. 

2.  They  are  strong  in  mind.  They  are  ilhterate  only  through  lack 
of  opportunity. 

3.  They  are  morally  sound.  The  high  percentage  of  crime  among 
children  of  the  foreign-born  is  due  to  vicious  surroundings  in  Am^erican 
cities,  and  lack  of  moral  training. 

4.  They  are  inherently  religious  and  have  already  responded  to  the 
Christian  approach. 

5.  Compared  to  the  brief  period  and  extent  of  Christian  effort 
to  reach  New  Americans  it  is  doubtful  if  any  mission  field  has  ever  shown 
larger  results. 

A  Dangerous  Foe 

If  we  permit  aliens  to  become  our  foe,  they  will  be  particularly 
dangerous. 
Because — 

1.  There  are  so  many  of  them — 17  million  in  the  United  States, 
June,  1919. 

2.  They  are  so  prolific.  Average  Polish  family,  six;  Bohemian, 
five;  native  stock,  two. 

3.  They  live  largely  in  cities,  too  often  in  "Little  Italy,"  ''Bohem- 
ian Hills,"  ''ghettos,"  etc.,  cut  off  from  American  influence,  though  in 
America. 

4.  They  have  not  yet  learned  the  rightful  place  of  womanhood. 

5.  They  are  embittered  by  wrongs  inflicted  by  contractors  and  poli- 
ticians; wrongs  resulting  from  bad  housing  and  growing  out  of  an  un- 
sympathetic America. 

6.  These  conditions  tend  to  make  them  agitators,  or  victims  of 
agitation. 

7.  Aliens  are  not  generally  in  sympathy  with  America's  religious 
ideals,  and  ofi"er  a  ready  response  to  free  thought  and  atheism. 


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No  Man's  Land  of  the  Church 

The  surveys  reveal  that  even  in  old  settled  areas  there  are  ''No 
Man's  Lands"  unreached  by  the  church,  adjacent  to  which  are  over- 
churched  communities. 

A  region  containing  100,000  foreigners  in  rural  industries  is  without 
any  church,  while  nearby  there  are  six  churches  of  one  denomination 
within  a  radius  of  two  miles. 

One  section  in  an  eastern  state  has  thirty-six  churches  within  a 
radius  of  six  miles,  while  adjoining  townships  are  almost  uncared  for, 
and  1,000  children  of  school  age  are  untouched  by  any  religious  influence. 

In  newer  sections  there  are  5,000  communities  wholly  unreached  by 
the  church.  One  such  county  with  a  population  of  22,000  shows  only 
1,200  church  members,  and  10,000  living  out  of  reach  of  any  existing 
church. 

Facts  Are  Dynamic 

Not  so  much  fear  of  the  facts  but  ignorance  of  them  has  been  the 
bane  of  the  church.  When  a  business  corporation  loses  ground  in  any 
given  territory,  it  is  not  long  in  finding  it  out  and  discovering  the  reasons 
for  it.  Immediately  it  gets  to  work  to  win  back  its  trade.  Churches,  on 
the  other  hand,  lose  ground  and  don't  know  why.  Some  of  the  most 
remarkable  features  of  the  survey,  concern,  not  foreign  fields  but  home 
churches  and  facts  under  the  very  eaves  of  their  edifices.  With  the  new 
discovery  of  their  own  neighborhoods,  there  will  be  no  excuse  if  the 
churches  do  not  formulate  winning  programs. 

Conservation  Which  Destroys 

The  unreadiness  of  the  church  to  adapt  methods  and  programs  to 
new  conditions  has  too  often  brought  defeat.  There  is  nothing  sacred 
about  methods.  As  customs  change,  programs  must  change.  For  exam- 
ple, nothing  in  the  Bible  requires  a  Sunday  morning  service  to  be  held 
at  1 1  o'clock.  Last  summer  a  New  York  minister  experimented  with  an 
early  morning  service,  leaving  the  rest  of  the  day  free  for  out-of-door 
recreation.  Many  were  attracted  to  church  who  under  the  old  program 
would  have  cut  the  service.  Fearlessness  of  this  sort  will  win  new  vic- 
tories for  the  church. 


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American  Education  Survey  Department 

The  fundamental  purpose  of  the  American  Education  Survey  Depart- 
ment is  to  discover  and  develop  the  agencies  which  are  now  equipped  or 
which  have  the  field  and  constituency  which  indicate  that  they  should  be 
equipped,  for  the  training  of  Christian  leaders,  both  lay  and  professional. 

Thirty  different  Protestant  churches  have  united  in  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  and  the  survey  covers  also  the  religious  work  done  by 
many  of  these  churches  in  three  hundred  and  twenty-four  tax-supported 
institutions. 

For  convenience,  the  institutions  investigated  are  classified  in  four 
groups,  the  names  of  the  groups  and  the  approximate  number  of  institu- 
tions in  each  group  being  as  follows: 

1.  Secondary  Schools: 

Denominational  and  Affiliated 325 

Independent 170  495 

2.  Colleges  and  Universities: 

Denominational  and  Affiliated 419 

Independent 104  523 

3.  Theological  Seminaries  and  Training  Schools: 

Seminaries *.....       140 

Training  Schools 60  200 

4.  Tax-Supported  Institutions: 

State  and  Municipal  Universities 100 

Normal  Schools    224  324 

Total  1,542 

Definition  of  Terms 

A  denominational  institution  is  one  which  sustains  a  formal  or  organic 
relation  with  some  ecclesiastical  body.  This  relation,  when  it  exists, 
is  estabhshed  by  a  charter  provision  requiring  one  or  both  of  two  things, 
namely,  the  election  of  all  or  a  majority  of  the  trustees  by  an  ecclesias- 
tical body,  or  membership  of  all  or  a  majority  of  the  trustees  in  some 
particular  church. 

An  affiliated  institution  is  one  not  governed  by  such  charter  provi- 
sions as  those  mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph,  but  which  maintains 
close  relations  with  a  particular  denomination,  having  been  organized 
and  largely  supported  by  the  members  of  that  denomination. 


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Independent  institutions  are  those  which  sustain  neither  formal 
nor  organic  nor  informal  relations  with  a  particular  church.  Some  insti- 
tutions which  were  originally  denominational  or  closely  affiliated  with  a 
particular  church  have,  by  the  amendment  of  their  charters  or  the  chang- 
ing of  conditions,  become  entirely  independent. 

Our  Objects 

The  primary  object  of  the  American  Education  Survey  Department 
is  to  conduct  a  survey  of  the  four  groups  of  institutions  as  named,  in  order 
to  secure  all  the  important  and  accessible  information  concerning  them. 
The  immediate  and  practical  reason  for  gathering  this  information  is  the 
fact  that  it  will  form  the  basis  of  an  appeal  for  adequate  financial  support 
for  Christian  education  in  America.  There  is  however,  a  larger,  more 
permanent,  and  in  this  respect,  a  more  important  reason  for  the  survey. 
If  the  returns  are  complete  and  accurate,  the  great  body  of  information 
secured,  when  analyzed  and  tabulated,  will  be  available  for  educational 
studies  of  the  greatest  scientific  and  practical  value.  The  character 
and  needs  of  particular  institutions  or  groups  of  institutions  will  be 
shown.  Worthy  institutions  will  be  enabled  to  prove  their  worth  and 
show  their  need  for  support.  Interested  individuals  will  be  able  to  learn 
the  important  facts  relating  to  institutions  asking  their  help.  Educa- 
tional standards  will  be  estabhshed,  and  the  entire  program  of  American 
education  will  be  made  more  effective  and  beneficial  in  its  relation  to  the 
state,  the  church,  and  Society. 

The    Fourth  Group 

The  relation  of  the  American  Education  Survey  Department  to  the 
group  of  Tax-Supported  Institutions  differs  from  its  relation  to  each  of 
the  other  three  groups.  In  the  fourth  group,  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  is  directly  interested  in  religious  work  done  among  the  stu- 
dents by  the  various  church  boards  or  other  church  agencies.  -The  sur- 
vey of  these  institutions  is  made  in  order  to  show  what  religious  work  is 
done  by  the  churches,  under  what  conditions,  and  with  what  results. 
The  survey  does  not  attempt  to  investigate  the  character  or  methods  of 
the  institutions  as  such. 

Our  Methods 

In  order  to  secure  the  desired  information,  a  questionnaire  was  pre- 
pared for  use  with  each  of  the  four  groups  of  institutions.  These  ques- 
tionnaires provide  for  the  reporting  of  detailed  information  concerning 


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the  organization  and  history  of  the  institutions,  the  number  and  grouping 
of  facuhies  and  students,  the  social  and  reUgious  hfe  of  the  student  body, 
the  vocational  distribution  of  the  alumni,  the  value  of  the  plant  and  equip- 
ment, an  analyzed  and  itemized  statement  concerning  the  endowment, 
income  and  expenditures,  and  a  statement  of  financial  needs.  This  in- 
formation, when  sent  to  the  office  of  the  Department,  is  tabulated  and 
made  available  for  reference.  If  the  plans  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  permit,  it  will  be  published  in  a  statistical  volume  similar 
to  the  Reports  of  the  United  States  Commissioner  of  Education. 

How  Will  the  IrivStitutions  Be  Benefitted? 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  is  a  cooperative  movement  on 
the  part  of  many  different  churches.  The  interests  of  the  several 
churches  are  represented  by  boards  or  similar  agencies.  The  budget 
of  the  Movement  is  the  summarized  statement  of  the  amounts  which  the 
church  boards  have  undertaken  to  get  as  they  work  together  in  the  Inter- 
church campaign.  These  various  amounts  are  the  so-called  board  or 
agency  budgets.  The  institutions  which  will  benefit  directly  from  the 
campaign  are  those  for  which  provision  has  been  made  in  the  board  bud- 
gets. Independent  institutions,  for  which  no  such  provision  has  been 
made,  may  receive  gifts  which  are  specifically  designated  for  them,  but 
such  gifts  will  not  be  considered  as  applying  on  any  board  budget  or  on 
the  budget  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

Why  Are   Christian   Educational    Institutions   Needed? 

The  training  of  men  for  the  ministry  and  the  work  of  missions  at 
home  and  abroad  was  the  task  originally  set  for  the  American  Christian 
college,  and  it  is  still  one  of  the  great  tasks  confronting  the  institution. 
The  complex  needs  of  modern  life,  however,  demand  Christian  motive 
and  attitude  on  the  part  of  all  educated  men  and  women.  Christian 
education  with  increasing  power  is  cultivating  this  motive  and  attitude 
among  students  in  our  colleges  and  universities.  The  result  is  that  earn- 
est Christian  men  and  women,  as  they  are  graduated,  are  going  in  increas- 
ing numbers  into  many  different  altruistic  callings.  They  become  physi- 
cians, teachers,  directors  of  religious  education,  physical  directors, 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.  secretaries,  social  workers,  deaconesses, 
nurses,  pastors'  assistants,  evangelists  and  leaders  in  many  other  kinds 
of  work. 


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AMERICAN  EDUCATION  SuivEY 

Campaign  Facts 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  calls  for  thirteen  thousand  new 
leaders  during  the  next  five  years  to  carry  out  the  Centenary  program. 
The  Life  Work  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  esti- 
mates that  we  will  need  one  hundred  thousand  new  trained  leaders  dur- 
ing the  next  five  years. 

Dr.  Frank  W.  Bible  estimates  that  Protestantism  needs  immediately 
five  thousand  missionaries  in  foreign  lands  in  order  to  bring  the  work  up 
to  the  point  at  which  it  would  have  been  if  the  war  had  not  occurred. 

Robert  E.  Speer  recently  declared  that  the  Foreign  Mission  Board 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  could  use  in  their  work,  from  now  on,  the 
entire  present  output  of  our  theological  seminaries,  leaving  none  for  the 
ministry  in  this  country. 

Dr.  Guy  Inman  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  one  thousand 
missionaries  are  needed  immediately  for  the  Spanish- American  program. 

Dr.  Moss,  who  conducted  the  Foreign  Survey  in  India  for  the  Cente- 
nary Movement,  says  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  working 
in  that  country  on  a  twenty-five  per  cent,  efficiency  basis  because  of  the 
lack  of  a  sufficient  number  of  leaders.  They  are  baptizing  fifty  thousand 
converts  per  year  and  turning  away  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand. 

Colleges  Produce  Statesmen 

The  seven  men  who  are  said  to  have  influenced  public  sentiment  in 
America  more  than  all  the  other  leaders  of  that  time  combined  were  all 
graduates  from  Harvard  College.  They  were  James  Otis,  Oxenbridge 
Thacher,  Samuel  Adams,  John  Hancock,  Jonathan  Mayhew,  John 
Adams,  and  Josiah  Quincy. 

Of  the  fifty-six  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  all  but 
nine  were  educated  men.  Twenty  of  them  were  graduates  of  five  Ameri- 
can colleges,  namely.  Harvard,  8;  Yale,  4;  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
3;  William  and  Mary,  3;  Princeton,  2.  These  twenty  graduates  of  the 
struggling  American  colleges  exerted  far  more  influence  than  all  the  other 
members  of  that  body  put  together.  Only  two  others  seem  to  have  had 
great  influence.  They  were  Witherspoon,  who  was  educated  in  a  Scotch 
university,  and  Franklin,  who  was  self-educated. 


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Gifts  of' the  Christian  College  to  the  Ministry 

"The  authorities  of  the  denominations  represented  in  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement  report  that  on  the  average,  ninety  per  cent, 
of  their  ministers  and  missionaries  have  been  trained  in  the  institutions 
under  their  own  jurisdiction.  The  lowest  estimate  made  by  any  of  these 
denominations  is  eighty  per  cent.  Some  denominations  report  as  high 
as  ninety-five  per  cent.  The  Disciples  report  that  but  ten  per  cent,  of 
their  college  students  attend  their  own  denominational  colleges  and  yet 
from  that  number  come  eighty  per  cent,  of  the  leaders  of  the  denomina- 
tion." 

China's  Debt  to  the  American  College 

Sixty  years  ago  the  first  Chinese  student  in  America  was  graduated 
from  Yale  University.  Nearly  one  thousand  Chinese  students  have  now 
graduated  from  American  colleges  and  universities.  It  is  said  that  one- 
half  the  Cabinet  officers  of  China  are  American  college  graduates.  Do  we 
wish  to  Christianize  the  East?  If  so,  we  must  make  American  colleges 
Christian. 


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American  Religious  Education  Survey  Department 

THE  survey  of  the  Religious  Education  Survey  Department  will 
include,  in  its  scope,  religious  education  in  the  home,  in  the  church, 
and  in  the  community — not  only  in  the  United  States  proper  but  also  in 
Alaska,  Hawaii,  and  the  West  Indies. 

Duty  of  the  Department 

In  its  system  of  public  schools  the  state  has  the  machinery  by 
which  it  hands  on  from  generation  to  generation  the  intellectual,  social 
and  industrial  achievements  of  the  race.  The  next  chapter  in  the  history 
of  democracy  must  record  the  development  of  a  piece  of  machinery  by 
which  the  moral  and  spiritual  achievements  of  the  race  may  be  trans- 
mitted from  generation  to  generation.  It  will  be  the  duty  of  the  department 
to  point  out  the  fact  that  it  is  the  inescapable  task  of  religious  education 
to  spiritualize  the  nation's  ideals.  If  this  means  the  setting  up  of  an 
elaborate  system  of  schools,  for  religious  education,  to  parallel  and  com- 
plement the  secular  school  system,  the  Department  will  not  hesitate  to 
say  30  in  plain  words,  and  to  draft  the  plans  and  specifications  showing 
front  elevation  and  cost  estimates. 


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American  Hospitals  and  Homes  Survey  Department 

Introduction 

THE  interchurch  benevolent  institutions  face  world  conditions  which 
make  heavy  demands  on  faith,  human  endurance  and  the  morale 
of  the  entire  race.  They  require  that  every  man  shall  be,  not  only  the 
''captain  of  his  soul"  but  the  captain  of  his  body. 

The  work  of  hospitals  and  homes  includes  the  three  great  dynamics 
of  Christian  Hfe — teaching,  preaching,  healing.  They,  therefore,  include 
the  Life  Program  of  Jesus  Christ. 

No  subjects  have  a  greater  appeal  than  the  defenceless  child  or 
woman,  the  helpless  sick  and  the  destitute  aged. 

To  care  for  these  the  Church  has  three  great  institutions:  Hospitals, 
to  restore  health  to  the  sick;  children's  homes  and  child  welfare,  for 
helpless  babies  and  friendless  Httle  ones;  and  old  people's  homes,  to  give 
sympathy  and  comfort  to  the  homeless  aged. 

What  the  Survey  Has  Discovered 

The  Survey  of  Hospitals  and  Homes,  only  partially  complete,  reveals 
the  fact  that  large  numbers  of  people  who  ought  to  receive  medical 
treatment  or  bodily  cure,  cannot  be  provided  for  because  we  do  not 
have  room  in  these  institutions.  We  find  that  one  hospital  bed  is  needed 
for  every  400  people.  At  the  rate  the  Protestant  churches  should  have, 
for  their  annual  membership,  66,000  hospital  beds,  whereas  the  actual 
number  is  26,000.    Protestant  churches  are,  therefore,  short  40,000  beds. 

The  Roman  Catholics  should  have  43,000  beds,  but  they  do  have 
55,000  beds.  Thus  they  have  enough  to  care  for  all  their  own  and  12,000 
to  care  for  others. 

Our  Protestant  church  hospitals  give  treatment  to  nearly  two 
million  patients  annually,  and  for  lack  of  adequate  facilities  are  compelled 
to  refuse  approximately  5,000  daily. 

The  Survey  further  shows  that  it  is  probable  that  not  more  than 
200,000  country  people  receive  hospital  treatment  in  one  year.  This 
presents  a  very  disappointing  condition  among  people  living  outside  of 
cities.  Investigators  find  a  great  many  people  who  need  medical  and 
surgical  care.  They  need  information  concerning  the  danger  of  letting 
diseases  run  on,  and  to  be  instructed  and  encouraged  to  secure  medical 
and  surgical  treatment. 


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Human  Wreckage 

If  people  perish  for  lack  of  knowledge,  they  also  suffer  physical 
wreckage  for  lack  of  medical  and  surgical  care. 

Causes  of  human  wreckage:  Ignorance,  indifference,  medical  and 
surgical  neglect,  and  inefficiency. 

Results:  Infant  mortality,  morbidity  of  children  and  young  people, 
cripples,  and  invalids;  due  to  neglect  and  preventible  diseases  and 
accidents. 

The  remedy:  Chris tian^institutions,  scientific  treatment,  salvaging 
the  blighted. 

It  is  for  the  purpose  of  salvaging  human  wreckage  as  well  as  pre*- 
ventible  remedies  that  we  have  these  institutions. 


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HOSPITALS  AND  HOMES  DEPARTMENT 

Why  Should  We  Have  Church  Hospitals? 

It  is  true  there  are  many  civic  and  private  institutions,  but  they 
have  never  provided  for  all  the  sick  and  afflicted.  The  testimony  of 
many  church  hospitals  and  homes  in  cities  is  that  neither  the  state  nor 
church  has  ample  room  for  all  who  need  their  care.  We  have  church 
hospitals  for  the  same  reason  that  we  have  church  colleges.  The  church 
hospital  ministers  to  the  soul,  while  it  cures  the  body.  We  need  them  for 
their  Christian  atmosphere  and  to  provide  the  best  medical  and  surgical 
treatment  for  the  rich  and  the  poor. 

"What  Shall  It  Profit  .  .  .?" 

"What  shall  it  profit  a  man  if  he  gain  the  whole  world  (of  bodily 
health)  and  lose  his  own  soul?" 

It  has  been  found  that  careful  ministration  to  the  bodies  of  men  has 
frequently  won  their  souls  to  Christ. 

A  Minister's  Testimony 

A  noted  clergyman  in  a  western  city,  when  brought 
suddenly  to  a  church  hospital  was  compelled  to  take  a  bed  in 
a  ward.  On  one  side  of  him  was  a  Hungarian,  on  the  other  an 
ItaHan  and  a  Bohemian.  Many  foreigners  were  in  the  ward — 
one  could  speak  six  languages.  "The  men  plead  with  me  not 
to  go  to  a  private  room  and  I  enjoyed  staying  with  them.  .  .  . 
The  hospital  has  a  wonderful  influence.  The  nurses  are  of  a 
splendid  character.  All  are  in  a  Christian  atmosphere.  This  is 
a  great  institution  with  a  gracious  ministry." 
Jesus  gave  as  the  first  great  credential  of  his  ministry,  "Go  and  tell 

John  the  things  ye  see  and  hear;  the  blind  receive  their  sight,  the  lame 

walk,  the  deaf  hear,  the  dead  are  raised  up  and  the  poor  have  good  tidings 

preached  to  them." 

Nowhere  in  the  world  is  this  more  perfectly  applied  than  in  our 

Christian  hospitals. 


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A  Plan  for  New  Institutions 

We  plan: 

General  hospitals  for  white  people  in  twelve  states. 

General  hospitals  for  colored  people  in  twelve  states. 

A  tuberculosis  sanatorium  in  Arizona. 

Four  hospitals  for  incurables  in  four  states. 

Three  children's  orthopaedic  hospitals  (one  in  New  York  City, 
one  in  Minnesota  and  one  in  Texas). 

Ten  training  schools  for  hospital  executives. 

Three  homes  for  retired  ministers  and  missionaries. 

Four  homes  for  missionaries  on  furlough. 

Three  homes  for  colored  children. 
The  budget  for  these  fifty-nine  institutions  calls  for  $25,400,000.  It 
is  expected  that  only  a  part  of  this  need  can  be  provided  for  the  first 
year.  But  the  church  cannot  turn  away  from  the  task.  The  child  has 
a  right  to  be  born  perfect,  to  have  healthy  parents,  a  happy  home  and  a 
better  world  to  live  in.  The  foreigner  has  a  right  to  the  "Golden  Rule" 
of  Christianity — to  be  treated  as  one  whom  Christ  loved. 

What  Shall  It  Profit  a  Christian? 

Though  he  be  considered  a  great  leader — yet  neglects  the  helpless? 

Though  he  win  renowned  applause — yet  regards  not  Christ's  suffering 
ones? 

Though  he  gain  distinguished  honor  for  great  things — yet  gives  not 
the  helping  hand? 

Our  Most  Inclusive  htstitution 

Hospitals  offer  a  complete  service  to  all  classes,  creeds,  colors  and 
conditions  of  men.  No  church  is  quite  so  inclusive  and  comprehensive 
in  its  outreach  to  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men. 

l^he  Right  of  Childhood 

Every  child  has  a  right  to  life,  good  physical  care,  good  education, 
time  to  play,  and  Christian  training.  When  it  has  no  home  to  care  for 
it,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  church  to  take  care  of  the  child. 

"AU  healing  is  divine  heaUng." 


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''The  Place  Where  Jesus  Lives''. 

What  could  be  finer  than  the  description  of  a  church  home  by  an 
orphan  inmate  as  "the  place  where  Jesus  lives?"  All  can't  be  cared  for 
who  need  it.  Just  as  the  Babe  was  crowded  out  of  the  inn,  so  ten  little 
children  are  crowded  out  of  Protestant  church  homes  to  one  received. 
One  Protestant  home  had  to  refuse  500  last  year. 

Hospital  of  the  Closed  Door 

A  sick  person  is  twice  as  likely  to  be  admitted  to  a  Roman 
Catholic  as  to  a  Protestant  hospital,  for  the  simple  reason  it  has  two 
such  institutions  to  our  one.  Protestantism  should  take  care  of  its  own 
sick.  Through  lack  of  equipment  Protestant  hospitals  are  compelled 
to  turn  away  1,825,000  persons  annually. 

Hospitals  Make  Americans 

One  of  the  most  potent  Americanizing  forces  is  the  hospital.  An 
alien  immigrant  is  apt  to  be  taken  advantage  of  everywhere  else,  but  in 
the  hospital,  when  he  is  most  susceptible  to  kindness,  he  gets  the  best 
treatment  he  has  ever  had.  A  certain  city  hospital  treated  43  national- 
ities one  year,  two  out  of  three  being  foreign-born.  Protestant  church 
hospitals  in  the  United  States  give  ten  million  dollars'  worth  of  free 
service  annually.  The  hospital  has  long  been  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  powerful  adjuncts  of  the  church  in  the  missionary  field.  It  has 
similar  influence  at  home,  especially  among  aliens. 

Church  Home  Makes  Christians 

How  many  parents  can  say,  as  did  the  superintendent  of  a  Church 
Home,  "All  our  children  on  leaving  are  Christians?"  An  institution  can 
never  be  the  counterpart  of  an  ideal  family  circle,  yet  the  superintendent 
feels,  even  more  than  the  average  parent,  the  obligation  to  give  Christian 
training  to  his  charges. 


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Ministerial  Support  and  Relief  Survey  Department 

TWO  strictly  defined  subjects  are  committed  to  the  Department 
of  Ministerial  Support  and  Relief.  One  is  adequate  support  of 
ministers  who  are  now  in  the  pulpit:  the  other  has  to  do  with  financial 
provision  for  retired  ministers  and  the  widows  and  orphans  of  ministers. 
It  is  the  intention  of  the  Depaitment  to  study  the  situation  both 
comprehensively  and  minutely,  and  then  to  place  before  the  American 
public  an  exact  statement  of  the  provision  that  is  now  being  made  for 
men  still  active  in  the  ministry  and  of  the  amount  that  will  be  required 
to  enable  the  Christian  church  to  discharge,  as  it  should,  its  sacred 
obligations  to  those  ministers  who  have  worn  themselves  out  in  its 
service. 


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SURVEY  GROUP — TALKING  POINTS 

MINISTERIAL  SUPPORT  AND  RELIEF 

Church  Relief 

How  would  it  do  to  call  this  church  relief  instead  of  ministerial  relief? 
It  is  a  bad  bargain  for  the  church  when  it  underpays  its  ministry,  just 
as  it  would  be  poor  economy  for  a  farmer  to  underfeed  his  stock,  or  for  a 
manufacturer  to  provide  insufficient  care  for  his  motor  trucks.  The 
church  doesn't  get  the  best  thinking  or  the  best  leadership  out  of  a 
minister  haunted  by  unpaid  bills,  fear  of  the  rainy  day,  and  daily  sight 
of  wife  and  children  deprived  of  common  necessities.  Ministerial  relief 
is  also  church  relief. 

Why  Ministers  Quit 

''If  I  were  pastor  of  a  church  and  my  salary  had  not  been  raised 
since  the  war  I  would  quit."  So  says  a  Baptist  preacher.  And  they  are 
quitting,  just  as  teachers  are  quitting,  not  because  they  want  to  quit 
or  because  they  have  ceased  to  love  their  chosen  vocation,  but  because 
they  can't  look  the  butcher  and  grocer  in  the  face  on  the  salaries  paid. 

Turn  the  Tables 

Instead  of  pleading  that  ministers  be  better  paid,  how  would  it  do 
to  turn  the  batteries  the  other  way,  and  ask  the  church  what  it  can  say 
in  its  own  defense  for  paying  pastors  less  than  they  earn?  An  industrial 
corporation  is  roundly  condemned  if  it  pays  its  employees  less  than  a 
living  wage.  What,  then,  shall  be  said  of  the  Christian  corporation, 
still  paying  the  salary  of  five  years  ago,  with  a  dollar  that  is  worth  only 
sixty  per  cent,  of  its  former  value? 

It  Can't  Be  Done 

"A  minister  must  have  three  things — a  college  education,  a  library, 
and  a  Prince  Albert  coat.  A  wife  is  a  decided  asset,  and  children  are 
desirable.  How  can  he  get  and  keep  these  necessities  on  the  salary  which 
h^receiveg?" 

—New  York  Journal^  Dec.  8,  1919. 


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Slim  Chances  of  Ministers 

Minister's  chance  of  receiving  $3 ,000  salary  i  in  100 
Lawyer's  ''  "  ''  "       i  in  5 

Doctor's  "  "  "         "       I  in  7 

Manufacturer's  "  "  "         "       i  in  10 

Young  men  don't  look  to  the  ministry  for  fat  salaries,  but  so  long 
as  the  church's  estimate  of  the  minister's  value  is  less  than  a  living  wage, 
capable  young  men  will  turn  to  other  callings  where  service  is  recognized 
in  more  generous  terms. 

Income  Tax  Doesn't  Bother  Ministers 

Ministers  are  not  complaining  about  the  income  tax  law,  for  the 
majority  of  ministers  do  not  come  within  its  provisions. 
U.  S.  Income  Tax  returns  for  191 8  show  that: 
Out  of  170,000  active  ministers,  1,671  come  within  $3,000  tax  limit. 

Out  of  every  100  ministers,    i  received  $4,000  or  more 

2  1^3 ,000 


/ 

(( 

$2,000    ''         " 

16 

a 

$1,500    "         " 

84 

a 

less  than  $1 ,000 

13 

ii 

less  than  $500 

Something  Wrong 

There  is  something  wrong  when  a  business  man  lets  his  minister 
try  to  live  on  a  smaller  salary  than  the  chauffeur  who  drives  him  to 
church.  There  is  something  wrong,  too,  when  the  average  layman, 
today,  in  actual  amount  per  member,  pays  no  more  for  ministerial  sup- 
port than  did  his  father  or  grandfather  or  great-grandfather.  These 
wrongs  will  be  righted  as  soon  as  the  average  layman  is  made  to  see 
clearly  the  injustice  that  has  been  done  to  the  minister,  the  man  who 
has  no  union,  who  never  strikes,  who  never  demands  higher  pay,  but 
who  suffers  greatly  in  this  era  of  high  cost  of  living. 


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Foreign  Survey  Department 

The  plain  purpose  of  the  Foreign  Survey  Department  is  to  state  the 
world's  missionary  task  as  a  whole  in  terms  of  men  and  money  required 
in  the  next  five  years.  An  attempt  will  be  made  to  put  what  needs 
to  be  done  towards  solving  the  whole  problem  of  foreign  missions  in 
such  a  way  as  to  make  the  members  of  the  church  of  Christ  want  to  have 
a  part  in  so  great  an  enterprise. 

The  Questionnaires 

It  is  assumed  in  all  the  survey  processes,  both  the  home  missions 
surveys  and  the  foreign  missions  surveys,  that  the  people  who  know  best 
what  is  needed  for  the  missionary  task  in  any  given  area — needs  both  in 
men  and  in  money— are  those  who  are  at  work  on  the  respective  fields. 
Therefore,  first  of  all,  questionnaires  were  made  up  and  sent  out  with 
these  experts  specifically  in  mind. 

The  foreign  missions  questionnaire  for  example  provides  for  a 
brief  description  of  the  field,  and  a  chart  showing  its  location  in  the  prov- 
ince or  other  area.  The  missionaries  themselves  tell  what  the  local  Chris- 
tians can  do  toward  a  five-year  program  and  what  effect,  in  their  judg- 
ment, will  result  from  the  carrying  out  of  this  program.  The  ques- 
tionnaire is  originally  the  judgment  of  a  comparatively  small  group  of 
missionaries  on  the  field.  It  is  corrected  or  modified  by  a  committee 
drawn  from  a  large  area  and  representing  all  types  of  work. 


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A  World  Program  and  a  Budget 

The  data  received  from  all  questionnaires  are  supplemented  by 
all  other  information  available — in  libraries,  in  current  literature,  or 
through  conference  with  especially  well-informed  men.  On  the  basis 
of  the  data  a  tentative  program  and  a  budget  will  be  worked  out  for  sub- 
mission to  a  conference  of  representatives  of  all  participating  missionary, 
educational  and  benevolent  boards.  An  announcement  regarding  the 
plans  for  this  conference  may  be  expected  very  soon. 

The  World  Program  will  face  the  whole  problem  of  effective  Christian 
service  for  America  and  for  the  world. 

The  budget,  thus  suggested,  will  then  be  laid  before  a  series  of  con- 
ferences made  up  of  the  men  best  informed  regarding  each  field,  whether 
.missionaries,  board  secretaries,  or  men  outside  missionary  circles.  At 
these  conferences  each  division  will  seek  to  help  each  board  to  reach 
a  judgment  as  to  its  proper  share  of  the  world  budget,  asking  that  the 
judgment  be  based  not  on  somebody's  guess  as  to  what  the  church  will 
give,  but  on  what  is  actually  needed  in  the  next  five  years.  The  separate 
budgets  of  group  needs  will  then  be  amalgamated  in  one  total  budget, 
which  in  turn  will  be  tentatively  apportioned  to  the  participating  denom- 
inations, on  the  basis  of  respective  needs,  subject  to  the  final  approval 
of  the  cooperating  communions. 

This  budget  will  be  the  most  carefully  considered  judgment  that 
has  ever  been  given  upon  the  responsibility  of  the  American  evangelical 
churches  for  Christian  service,  and  will  enable  the  boards  to  face  the  par- 
ticular problems  of  each  field  in  the  spirit  of  practical  Christian  coopera- 
tion. 


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FOREIGN  SURVEY 

Beating  Berlin  to  Bagdad 

All  the  population  of  Germany  could  be  put  in  the  north  of  Argen- 
tina and  all  the  population  of  France  in  the  south  and  they  would  then 
be  further  apart  than  Berlin  and  Bagdad. 

Magnificent  Distances  and  Opportunities 

In  Brazil  there  is  more  unexplored  territory  than  in  all  the  con- 
tinent of  Africa.  One  state  in  Brazil,  four  times  the  size  of  Texas,  has 
not  a  single  evangelical  missionary.  There  are  Mexican  states  with 
1,000,000  inhabitants  without  one  evangelical  worker,  and  vast  areas 
throughout  Latin  America  absolutely  untouched  by  the  Protestant 
church.  Among  20,000,000  Indians  there  is  not  a  single  Protestant 
missionary . 

Latin  America  to  the  Fore 

Prompted  by  the  co7nmercial  appeal,  high  school  and  college  students 
in  large  numbers  have  taken  up  the  study  of  Spanish.  What  of  the 
spiritual  appeal  \^■hich  at  the  recent  Des  Moines  convention  drew  2,000 
out  of  7,000  student  delegates  to  the  Latin  American  rally? 

Business  Awakes  to  Latin  America 

Europe  used  to  have  the  bulk  of  Latin  America's  trade,  but  the 
United  States  now  recognizes  this  as  our  logical  market.  There  are 
twenty-three  North  American  banks  in  South  America  where  five  years 
ago  there  was  none.     Steamship  service  is  steadily  improving. 

Church  Mnst  Awake,  Too 

What  right  have  we  to  grow  rich  out  of  trade  with  the  nations  of 
Latin  America  if  we  do  not  send  missionaries  to  meet  the  intellectual, 
physical  and  spiritual  needs  of  the  people?  Latin  America  needb  the 
educator,  the  physician  and  the  missionary  with  the  simple  gospel  story 
as  much  as  it  needs  our  trade.  All  the  twenty  nations  of  Latin  America 
spend  less  on  education  than  New  York  alone. 


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A  Staggering  Task 

If  the  area  of  the  United  States  were  represented  by  the  five  fingers  of 
one  hand,  three  of  the  five  would  represent  India's  area.  It  is  the 
336,000,000  within  this  area  that  makes  India's  evangeHsm  so  staggering 
a  proposition. 

Put  into  this  area  our 110,000,000 

Add  Canada's 8,000,000 

Drop  in  Mexico's 16,000,000 

Push  in  South  America's 60,000,000 

Jam  in  Africa's 140,000,000 

You  then  have 334,000,000 

which  is  a  trifle  less  than  India's  population. 

How  Missionaries  Feel  Toward  the  Movement 

"The  greatest  piece  of  news  ever  sent  out  to  the  missionary  bodies." 
This  is  the  way  a  missionary  in  China  speaks  of  the  birth  of  the  Inter- 
churgh  World  Movement.  Missionaries  see  the  home  church  gripping 
the  missionary  problem  with  new  vision  and  purpose.  This  means  more 
men  and  women,  larger  schools  and  hospitals,  more  money,  and  better 
equipment. 

China  Looks  to  America 

"China  is  at  the  door  of  the  Kingdom,  and  is  looking  to  America  to 
open  the  door." 

— Dr.  Cornelius  H.  Patton. 

Turning  Menace  into  Opportunity 

Had  the  Christian  Chinese  remained  passive  to  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement,  the  latter  would  have  been  a  menace  to  China.  Dr. 
C.  H.  Patton  immediately  followed  this  statement  with  the  declaration 
that  the  Christian  Chinese  have  turned  what  might  have  been  a  danger 
into  a  sublime  opportunity.  Realizing  they  must  prepare  for  the  Move- 
ment, they  have  organized  student  volunteer,  stewardship  and  evan- 
gehstic  movements  of  their  own.  The  Movenacnt  will  not  succeed  in 
any  foreign  field  if  superimposed  on  an  unprepared  native  church.  The 
same  thing  is  true  of  the  American  church. 


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SURVEY    GROUP — TALKING   POINTS Cont. 

The  East  Awakes 

There  is  possible  peril  in  the  political,  social  and  industrial  awaken- 
ing of  the  East.  To  Christian  missions  it  is  of  greatest  significance.  In 
the  Phihppines  the  United  States  has  written  a  new  chapter  in  colonial 
administration.  We  have  estabhshed  there  a  system  of  education, 
helped  organize  industrial  life,  and  promised  self-government  as  soon  as 
the  population  is  ready  for  it.  But  this  new  civilization,  inspired  under 
the  most  favorable  leadership,  will  not  be  the  salvation  of  the  Filipinos, 
unless  it  is  fundamentally  Christian. 

Japan  s  Crying  Need  of  the  Gospel 

Though  far  advanced  in  Western  civiUzation,  no  Oriental  nation 
so  needs  the  gospel  as  Japan.  The  Japanese  are  wrestling  with  the  evils 
of  autocracy,  mihtarism,  industrialism,  materialism.  In  her  unexampled 
prosperity,  Japan  is  in  danger  of  losing  her  soul.  Modern  science  and 
ancient  superstition  cannot  permanently  exist  side  by  side,  but  science 
and  materialism  may,  and  this  is  Japan's  menace.  Strong  democratic 
forces  are  stirring  in  Japan.  The  leaven  of  the  gospel  is  needed  as  never 
before.  "Give  us  500,000  Christians  in  Japan,"  says  Dr.  Ebina,  Congre- 
gational pastor  in  Tokyo,  "and  we  will  redeem  the  land." 

Missions  Never  So  Urgent 

China,  India,  Turkey  and  other  backward  Eastern  nations  are  work- 
ing out  their  destiny  at  a  time  when  all  the  world  is  in  ferment.  Intro- 
duction of  the  factory  system,  with  long  hours  of  labor  for  women  and 
children  as  well  as  men,  is  fraught  with  grave  dangers.  Japan  is  passing 
through  this  stage  now.  The  great  struggle  to  secure  democracy  in 
government,  in  social  and  industrial  life  is  bound  to  fail  unless  that  democ- 
racy is  founded  upon  Christian  principles.  Never  in  all  the  history  of 
Christian  missions  have  the  call  and  the  need  been  so  insistent  as  now. 


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SPIRITUAL   RESOURCES    DEPARTMENT 


CHAPTER  VI 
SPIRITUAL  RESOURCES  DEPARTMENT 

Objectives 

THE  Interchurch  World  Movement  as  a  whole  is  essentially  spiritual. 
The  Spiritual  Resources  Department  stresses  this  tact,  and  seeks  to 
saturate  all  the  policies  and  activities  of  the  Movement  with  spiritual 
motives  and  spiritual  power.  It  cooperates  with  the  various  forward 
movements  in  deepening  the  spiritual  life  of  the  churches  and  in  winning 
men  to  Christ.  It  assists  in  coordinating  programs  for  prayer  in  rela- 
tion to  special  movements  and  seasons,  and  creates  and  circulate?  litera- 
ture on  prayer  and  other  devotional  topics. 

Intercessors  to  be  Enlisted 

Intercessors  and  groups  of  intercessors  are  being  enlisted  by  name 
through  the  congregational  units  in  all  lands  to  engage  in  such  a  program. 
Enlistment  cards,  for  this  purpose,  have  been  prepared  and  are  available. 

Family  Worship 

All  communions  recognize  the  value  of  definite  family  worship. 
The  Department  recommends  that  the  promotion  of  this  phase  of  the 
program  be  emphasized  at  conferences  and  other  gatherings.  Appropriate 
prayers  and  selected  Bible  readings  for  use  in  family  groups  may  be 
obtained  from  the  Department. 

From  Easter  to  Pentecost 

For  fifty  days  from  Easter  to  Pentecost  the  appeal  is  made  for  a 
simultaneous  campaign  of  personal  evangelism  to  culminate  May  23, 
1920,  the  anniversary  of  Pentecost.  Every  community  surveyor  should 
be  a  personal  evangelist.  Every  financial  canvasser  should  be  a  personal 
evangelist.  This  is  the  real  objective  of  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment; to  make  disciples  for  Christ.    If  we  fail  in  this,  we  fail  utterly. 

The  plans  for  this  campaign  include: 

Mobilization  Day — May  14; 

Dedication  Day — May  16; 

Visitation  Week  May  16-23. 

Day  of  Pentecost — May  22,. 

For  detailed  information  see  the  pamphlet  From  Easier  to  Pentecost. 


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Win -One  Legion 

•  Whatever  circles  or  groups  a  pastor  may  have  formed  in  his  church 
to  assist  him  in  the  work  of  personal  evangelism  should  be  reinforced 
both  in  spirit  and  numbers  for  the  period  between  Easter  and  Pentecost. 
The  \yin-One  Legion  is  commended  to  all  our  churches.  The  object  of 
the  Win-One  Legion  is  to  vitalize  and  utilize  the  soul-winning  possibilities 
of  every  true  disciple  of  Christ.  It  is  the  privilege  and  dutv  of  every 
disciple  of  Christ  to  make  other  disciples/  The  Win-One  Legion  will 
greatly  assist  in  actualizing  the  evangelistic  ideals  of  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  to  make 

1.  Every  Christian  an  Evangelist. 

2.  Every  Church  a  cefiter  of  Evangelistic  and  Community  Service. 

No  better  season  of  the  year  can  be  utilized  by  the  members  of  the 
Win-One  Legion  than  the  days  immediately  after  Easter.  The  joy  of 
the  resurrection  is  manifest.  New  disciples  in  their  love  and  loyalty 
to  Christ  make  the  best  personal  evangelists.  Every  local  church' with 
a  Win-One  Legion  will  make  an  invaluable  contribution  to  the  community 
and  county  program  of  evangelistic  visitation. 

Win-One  Legion  Suggestions 

1.  Leaflet  describing  the  work  of  the  Win-One  Legion  can  be  secured 
free. 

2.  The  Win-One  Legion  Cards,  at  25  cents  per  hundred  for  separate 
cards,  or  50  cents  per  hundred  for  double  cauls,  one  to  be  retained  by 
the  signer  and  the  other  returned  to  the  pastor. 

3.  Win-One  Worker,  by  Christian  F.  Reisner,  10  cents  a  copy. 
A  vest-pocket  companion  on  personal  work.  Abounds  in  practical  sug- 
gestions for  pastors  and  lay  workers. 

The  above  literature  can  be  secured  from  the  Sales  Department 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  45  West  iSth  Street,  New  York 
City. 

Mobilization  Da>-,  Ma>'  14 

Purpose.  To  mobilize  the  Protestant  forces  of  every  counly,  city, 
and  community  for  a  simultaneous  house  to  house  visitation  in  the 
interest  of  Christian  friendliness  during  the  week  of  May  16-23.  This 
visitation  is  to  assure  every  household  having  Protestant  sympathies 
that  the  churches  of  the  comnumity  are  eager  to  welcome  them  to  ihrir 
fellowship  and  service. 


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Plan,  (i)  In  every  state  of  the  Union  there  is  a  state  representative 
of  the  Spiritual  Resources  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment. (2)  There  will  be  selected  in  every  county  of  every  state  a 
county  spiritual  resources  representative.  (3)  This  county  represen- 
tative should  request  of  every  local  community  the  appointment  of  a 
community  committee  consisting  of  the  pastors  and  one  layman  from 
each  church.  (4)  This  community  committee  should  divide  the  entire 
community  into  as  many  sections  as  there  are  local  churches  in  the 
community.  (5)  Each  local  church  organization  should  be  given  a 
definite  section  of  the  community  to  visit  during  Visitation  Week,  the 
size  of  the  section  dependent  on  local  conditions.  (6)  Over  each  section 
should  be  appointed  a  section  leader  to  see  that  the  section  is  properly 
visited. 

Program,  (i)  On  the  evening  of  May  14  a  supper  of  all  the  lay 
officials  of  all  the  visiting  teams  of  all  the  churches  in  the  community 
is  recommended.  (2)  The  work  of  visitation  described  on  pages  9  and 
10  of  the  pamphlet,  From  Easter  to  Pentecost,  should  be  explained.  (3) 
Each  section  leader  should  meet  his  group  before  the  meeting  closes  in 
order  to  give  definite  instructions  to  the  visitors.  (4)  Every  lay  official 
ought  to  be  on  one  of  the  teams  for  visitation. 


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LIFE  WORK   DEPARTMENT 


CHAPTER  VII 
LIFE  WORK  DEPARTMENT 

THE  Life  Work  Department  of  the  Movement,  as  organized,  consti- 
tutes a  cooperative  agency  which  aims,  primarily,  to  help  young  men 
and  women  find  their  God-intended  life-work.  It  is  designed  to  meet  the 
need  of  the  hour  for  trained  Christian  leadership  in  every  phase  of 
contemporary^  life,  both  in  America  and  abroad.  To  this  end  it  seeks 
to  place  before  all  young  people,  not  definitely  engaged  in  religious 
work,  the  duty  of  dedicating  their  lives  to  the  conscious  service  of  Christ 
both  as  volunteer  workers  in  their  own  churches  and  also  in  their  active 
business  or  professional  careers. 

How  the  Department  Functions 

The  purposes  of  the  Department  are  carried  forward  through 
the  activities  of  two  divisional  groups — the  Recruiting  Division  and 
the  Vocational  and  Training  Division.  These  divisions  are  cooperating 
with  the  recruiting  and  training  agencies  of  evangelical  churches  in 
discovering,  enlisting  and  training  the  increasingly  large  numbers  of 
employed  workers  that  are  needed,  and  that  will  be  needed,  for  an 
adequate  Christian  program  for  the  whole  world.  It  is  estimated  that 
all  the  Evangelical  churches  of  Amierica  will  require  a  total  of  not  less 
than  100,000  employed  workers  within  the  next  five  years. 

How  the  Divisions  Function 

The  Recruiting  Division  conducts  its  work  in  cooperation  with 
the  home,  the  church,  young  people's  societies,  boards  of  education, 
mission  boards,  and  other  similar  agencies.  Its  mission,  as  interpreted 
by  those  responsible  for  its  program  of  action,  is  to  provide  the  widest 
possible  presentation  among  young  people  of  the  facts  of  the  world's 
need,  as  revealed  by  the  surveys,  and  of  the  basic  principles  upon  which 
life  decisions  should  be  made. 

The  Vocational  and  Training  Division  is  charged  with  the  duty  of 
selecting  and  training  vocational  counselors  and  assisting  all  pastors 
and  church  leaders  in  dealing  most  effectively  with  young  people  in 
regard  to  questions  about  their  life-work.  A  concerted  effort,  for  the 
first  time  in  the  history  of  the  church,  is  being  made  to  guide  safely 
the  youth  of  both  sexes  through  the  valley  of  decision. 


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Specific  Plans 


Broadly  speaking,  the  Department  is  endeavoring  to  assist  in 
bringing  about  a  keener  realization  of  the  paramount  importance  of 
adequate  and  qualified  leadership  in  the  rapidly  expanding  work  of  the 
church  of  Christ. 

Specifically  stated,  the  Department  is  laboring,  as  indicated  above. 

First:  To  promote  the  widest  possible  presentation,  among  young 
people,  of  the  facts  of  the  world's  need  and  of  the  fundamental  spiritual 
principles  upon  which  decisions  for  service  should  be  made.  The 
cooperation  of  church  leaders  and  of  parents  will  be  sought  and  enlisted 
in  this  enterprise. 

Second:  To  make  available  suitable  literature  for  a  comprehensive 
and  continuous  educational  campaign  on  this  subject. 

Third:  To  develop  the  best  possible  recruiting  agencies  in  all 
churches,  and  the  best  candidate  departments  in  all  mission  boards. 
It  will  be  obvious  that  this  work  of  recruiting,  guiding  and  training 
candidates  cannot  be  fully  turned  over  by  these  several  departments 
to  any  other  agency,  because  of  the  importance  of  directly  relating 
the  candidate  to  the  employment  board  during  at  least  a  part  of  his 
preparation  for  his  Hfe-work. 

Fourth:  To  define  and  describe  the  callings  that  are  open  to  various 
types  of  employed  workers  in  both  home  and  foreign  fields.  These 
include  ministers  and  workers  in  all  other  departments  of  church  activity; 
teachers  in  religious  and  secular  schools,  colleges,  seminaries,  and 
universities;  directors  of  physical  and  recreational  work;  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association  workers  and  Young  Women's  Christian  Association 
workers  and  singers;  organizers  and  leaders  of  Young  People's  Societies; 
deaconesses,  visiting  nurses,  and  social  workers. 

Fifth:  To  develop  new  types  of  special  work  needed  for  the  general 
program  of  the  church,  such  as,  for  example,  trained  directors  for 
particular  kinds  of  organized  activity  either  in  individual  churches  or 
in  groups  of  churches. 

Sixth:  To  cooperate  with  boards  of  education  and  mission  boards 
in  aiding  worthy  and  promising  students  to  secure  their  educational 
preparation. 

Seventh:  To  bring  about  a  greater  degree  of  cooperation  on  the 
part  of  the  ministers  and  public  school  teachers  in  helping  young  people 
to  find  themselves  and  their  life-work. 


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Capturing  the  Coach 

College  president  and  professor  have  always  bulked  large  in  voca- 
tional guidance,  but  what  about  the  athletic  coach,  described  by  Dr. 
J.  Campbell  White  of  the  Life  Work  Department  as  "the  most  influential 
man  on  the  college  campus?"  The  Interchurch  World  Movement  has 
taken  steps  to  enlist  the  cooperation  not  only  of  the  coach  but  of  the 
fellow  who  stars  in  football,  baseball,  track,  crew,  tennis  or  in  any 
college  sport.  The  Life  Work  Department  will  try  to  reach  all  college 
students  through  the  fellows  whose  athletic  ability  or  personality  lifts 
them  out  of  the  mass  of  the  student  body.  If  these  men  can  be  led  to 
look  out  upon  the  world  in  terms  of  its  social ,  moral  and  religious  needs 
the  idealism  of  our  student  bodies  will  again  direct  large  numbers  of 
college  graduates  into  the  field  of  Christian  service  and  leadership . 

Parents  the  Biggest  Stumbling  Block 

Half  of  our  missionaries  had  to  overcome  parental  opposition.  The 
ambitions  of  parents  for  their  children  run  along  the  lines  of  financial 
or  some  sort  of  material  success.  In  the  case  of  missionary  work  the 
thought  of  years  of  separation  bulks  large.  Should  not  a  parent  be 
willing  to  cooperate  in  discovering  God's  plan  for  his  child's  life?  To 
miss  this  plan  is  life's  greatest  tragedy. 

One  Half 

Thousands  who  gave  themselves  without  stint  during  the  war  are 
now  indulging  in  selfish  ease,  but  with  half  the  world  sending  forth  a 
Macedonian  call,  this  is  no  time  to  sit  in  the  easy  chair. 

One-half  the  world  has  no  Teachers. 
"  "  ''  "  "  "  Doctors. 
"     "     "        "         "    "    Bible. 

a        u       u  u  u      u     CJ^rist. 

The  church  is  short  about  5,000  missionaries  in  the  foreign  field. 
Interchurch  leaders  estimate  that  100,000  new  paid  religious  workers 
will  be  needed  in  the  next  five  years. 


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When  Decisions  Are  Made 

Out  of  894  candidates  for  the  ministry,  the  Southern  Presbyterian 
Church  found: 

55  heard  the  call  under  10  years; 

55  heard  the  call  between  11  and  15; 

477  heard  the  call  between  16  and  20; 

228  heard  the  call  between  21  and  25; 

44  heard  the  call  between  26  and  30; 

21  heard  the  call  between  31  and  35; 

6  heard  the  call  between  36  and  40; 

5  heard  the  call  between  41  and  45 ; 

I  heard  the  call  between  46  and  50; 

I  heard  the  call  at  52. 

Farms  Furnish  Most  Ministers 

Per  cent. 

Homes  of  farmers  furnish 48 

Homes  of  ministers  furnish 14 

Homes  of  merchants  furnish 11 

Homes  of  laborers  furnish 4 

Homes  of  salesmen  furnish 3 

Homes  of  carpenters  furnish 3 

Homes  of  clerical  employees  furnish 3 

Homes  of  physicians  furnish 3 

Homes  of  lawyers  furnish 2 

Homes  of  professors  furnish i 

Homes  of  bankers  furnish i 

Homes  of  other  professions  furnish 7 

(From  a  12-year  study) 

City  Church  Doesn't  Breed  Ministers 

From  investigations  of  917  candidates  for  the  ministry,  it  appears    / 
that—  '  / 

Country  churches  supplied 414 

Small  towns  supplied 329 

City  supplied 174 


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CHAPTER  VIII 
STEWARDSHIP  DEPARTMENT 

ALL  that  men  possess  belongs  to  God — the  earth  and  the  fulness  there- 
of. Men  are  His  stewards — we  are  not  our  own  for  we  are  bought 
with  a  price.  These  are  the  fundamental  principles  of  stewardship. 
The  acknowledgment  of  them  by  all  professed  Christians  is  essential  to 
the  success  of  any  plan  adopted  by  the  church  to  execute  the  commission 
of  our  Master. 

Purpose  of  the  Department 

The  purpose  of  the  Stewardship  Department  is  to  coordinate  the 
churches  in  a  united  effort — in  the  first  place,  to  Christianize  the  inter- 
pretation of  money  and  the  whole  attitude  of  men  and  women  every- 
where toward  wages  and  possessions  and,  in  the  second  place,  to  inspire 
regular  and  adequate  support,  both  spiritual  and  financial,  for  the 
gigantic  task  of  winning  the  world  for  Christ. 

Program  of  the  Department 

The  individual  congregation  will  be  the  unit  through  which  the 
Department  will  function  as  it  endeavors  to  accompHsh  this  two-fold 
purpose.  Some  outstanding  leader  in  the  congregation  should  be  selected 
to  act  as  the  chairman  of  the  stewardship  committee.  His  duty  would  be 
to  assist  the  pastor  in  every  effort  to  arouse  the  church  members  to  the 
importance  of  carrying  out  such  a  program. 

Each  separate  organization  within  the  individual  church  should 
be  represented  on  the  general  committee  so  that  all  the  plans  in  the 
congregation  may  be  coordinated.  Promotion  groups  within  certain 
geographical  limits  may  also  be  organized  to  inspire  the  local  groups 
by  means  of  occasional  conferences  on  the  subject  of  stewardship. 

Plans  of  the  Department 

The  Department's  first  major  objective  is  the  enrolment  of  the 
Ten  Million  League  of  Christian  Stewards,  the  campaign  to  reach  its 
climax  in  February.     It  purposes: 

1.  To  arrange  for  the  fullest  possible  cooperation  through  confer- 
ences of  stewardship  leaders  in  the  various  communions. 

2.  To  use  state  and  county  training  conferences  to  create  enthu- 
siasm for  the  February  Interchurch  Stewardshipjperiod. 


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3.  To  serve  as  a  clearing  house  for  the  production  and  distributior 
of  the  best  in  stewardship  Hterature  of  all  the  communions. 

4.  To  prepare  programs  containing  outlines  of  the  various  ''elec 
tives"  suggested  for  the  stewardship  period  and  to  call  attention  to  the 
Four  Weeks'  Program  and  other  programs  outHned  in  Study  7  of  "The 
New  Christian." 

5.  To  consider  a  proposal  for  a  Nation-wide  enrolment  day  in 
February  and  a  proposal  to  place  enrolment  files  of  enlisted  Christian 
stewards  at  the  headquarters  of  the  various  communions  concerned. 


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What  Stewardship  Meant  to  One  Church 

Note  how  local  expenses  and  missionary  contributions  of  a  Connecti- 
cut Methodist  Church  were  revolutionized  by  a  stewardship  program. 
Current  expense  account  rose  from  $i,8oo  to  $3,400,  and  pastor's  salary 
increased  $300.  A  $100  missionary  contribution  leaped  to  $3,000  for 
work  for  others.  Out  of  260  members,  63  tithes  pledged  50  per  cent,  of 
local  and  80  per  cent,  of  missionary  budget. 

New  Angle  on  Stewardship 

Once  acknowledged  that  all  we  have  comes  from  God,  Stewardships' 
question  then  becomes,  not,  How  much  should  I  give?  but.  How  much  of 
God's  ought  I  retain  for  personal  or  selfish  use?  God  is  no  beggar  ask- 
ing for  alms  for  his  church,  and  the  church  has  no  business  begging. 
Whenever  the  church  has  begged,  she  has  gotten  money  in  driblets. 
Put  giving  on  the  stewardship  basis,  and  a  continuous  stream  mil  flow 
into  God's  treasury. 

Untapped  Resources 

If  old  areas  of  giving  were  our  sole  dependence,  the  financial  appeals 
of  all  Forward  Movements  would  be  a  waste  of  effort.  Wholly  new  groups 
must  be  reached,  and  depths  of  generosity,  never  before  available,  must 
be  sounded.  During  the  war  many  a  town  gave  more  to  the  Red  Cross 
in  one  appeal  than  they  ordinarily  gave  to  all  charities  in  a  decade,  and 
subscribed  millions  to  Liberty  Loans,  where  before  they  had  not  been  able 
to  float  their  own  little  bond  issues.  The  patriotic  urge  of  the  war  re- 
vealed financial  abihty  of  which  they  themselves  had  not  dreamed.  There 
is  enough  money  in  the  country  to  carry  on  God's  work.  Give  the  people 
a  sense  of  the  need,  convince  them  of  the  reality  of  their  stewardship, 
and  the  response  will  be  adequate. 

Giving  Grip  to  Stewardship 

A  definite  proportion  of  one's  income  is  the  only  business-like  way 
to  approach  giving.  Says  Robert  E.  Speer,  ''We  need  some  plain,  sim- 
ple device  that  will  give  the  principle  of  stewardship  a  grip."  We  have 
to  pay  a  fixed  sum  or  a  definite  proportion  of  income  for  everything  else, 
whv  not  for  the  church? 


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Gold  Galore 

Never  before  has  America  had  so  much  money  as  it  has  today.  Every 
deserving  cause  can  get  all  it  needs.  If  the  church  underwrites  its  ap- 
peal with  hard  facts  and  a  forward  program  based  on  actual,  ascertained 
need,  money  will  flow  into  its  treasury.  If  it  can  show  that  duplication 
and  working  at  cross  purposes  will  cease,  and  that  its  methods  will  be  as 
scientific  as  those  of  modern  business,  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  funds 
will  be  forthcoming. 

Sacrifice  Measures  Loyalty 

Can't  we  have  as  fine  a  spirit  of  sacrifice  for  the  church  as  we  had 
for  country  during  the  war?  We  allowed  nothing  to  stand  in  the  way 
of  winning  the  war.  Nothing  should  be  permitted  to  stand  in  the  way  of 
winning  this  Christian  warfare. 


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MISSIONARY   EDUCATION   DEPARTMENT 


CHAPTER  IX 
MISSIONARY  EDUCATION  DEPARTMENT 

THE  work  of  the  Missionary  Education  Movement,  with  whose  history 
of  seventeen  years  of  splendid  service  most  of  us  are  famihar, 
is  now  carried  forward  through  the  channels  of  the  Missionary  Education 
Department  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  of  which  it  has  for  all 
practical  purposes  become  a  constituent  part. 

THE  TRANSITION 

Old  friends  of  the  Missionary  Education  Movement  may  be  assured 
that  the  Interchurch  Movement  is  to  continue  unimpaired  the  service 
to  our  churches  which  has  been  the  glory  of  the  Missionary  Edu- 
cation Movement.  Editorial  work  and  manufacture  of  missionary 
education  texts  have  been  continued  in  this  Department.  The  well 
demonstrated  ideals  developed  through  years  of  experience  are  to  be 
maintained.  Text  books  for  the  coming  season  are  further  along  than 
they  have  ever  been  at  this  time  of  year.  The  most  important  of  our 
texts  for  adults  and  young  people  will  be  in  print  probably  in  March. 
Eighty  tons  of  paper  are  already  purchased  and  arrangements  made  to 
take  the  full  time  of  a  printing  press, so  we  expect  to  suffer  no  disappoint- 
ment on  our  printing  program. 

Advisory  Committee  of  the  Department 

The  advisory  committee  of  the  Department  is  composed  of  offi- 
cials of  these  denominational  boards,  together  with  members  repre- 
senting interdenominational  bodies,  such  as  the  Council  of  Women 
for  Home  Missions,  the  Federation  of  Women's  Boards  for  Foreign 
Missions,  the  Home  Missions  Council,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and 
Student  Volunteer  Movement.  At  the  time  of  the  transfer  of  the 
Missionary  Education  Movement  to  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
seventy-seven  distinct  mission  boards  were  cooperating  through  the 
Movement  in  its  varied  forms  of  missionary  education. 


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Literary  Output 

Literature  now  in  use  1919-20. 

New  Life  Currents  in  China — Gamewell 
*A  Crusade  of  Compassion — Allen 

Foreign  Magic — Cochran 

Ministers  of  Mercy — Franklin 
*MooK — Sites 

The  Honorable  Crimson  Tree — Ferris 

Christian  Americanization — Brooks 

Brother  Van — Brummitt 

Americans  All — Seaman 
*Called  to  the  Colors — Van  Marter 


*  Published  by  the  Women's  Boards. 


New  Literature  for  1920-21 


THEMES 


Foreign  Mission  Study 
The  Near  East 


Home  Mission  Study 
The  Church  and  the  Community 


Grade  Materials  on  Foreign 

Missions 

Adult  The  Near  East,  Crossroads 
of  the  world.  An  eight 
chapter  study  book,  touch- 
ing Egypt,  Syria,  Asia 
Minor,  Mesopotamia,  and 
Persia,  by  William  H.  Hall, 
of  the  Syrian  Protestant 
College,  Beirut.  Manu- 
script in  hand.  Ready 
April  1,  1920.  Cloth,  75c.; 
paper,  50c. 

Senior       It    is    recommended    that 

Masoud  the  Bedouin  by  Al- 

(Ages  about  freda  Post  Carhart,  be  pro- 

17-20)       moted  as  a  reading  book  on 

the  Near  East  for  young 

people.    Cloth,  $1.50. 


Materials  on  Home 
Missions 

The  Church  and  the  Commu- 
nity, by  Ralph  E.  Diffendor- 
fer,  to  be  published  jointly 
with  the  Council  of  Women 
for  Home  Missions.  Ready 
March  15, 1920.  Cloth,  75c. 
paper,  50c. 


A  book  by  Ralph  A.  Felton 
on  the  practical  problems  of 
the  church  in  community 
service.  For  young  people 
or  for  older  groups  who  wish 
to  study  forms  of  community 
service.  Amply  illustrated. 
Cloth,  75c.;  paper,  50c. 


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Grade  Materials  on  Foreign 

Missions 

Inter-        Shepard  of  Aintab.  A  biog- 

mediate      raphy  of  Dr.  Fred  Douglas 

Shepard  by  his   daughter, 

(Ages  about  Alice  Shepard  Riggs.  Ready 

13-16)       in  May,  1920.    Cloth,  75c.; 

paper,  50c. 


Junior  Fez  and  Turban  Tales.  Ten 
stories  about  boys  and  girls 
of  the  Near  East  by  Isabel 
M.  Blake,  formerly  of  Ain- 
tab, and  a  member  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  Com- 
mission to  Palestine,  1918. 
Ready  in  April,  1920. 
Cloth,  75c.;  paper,  50c. 

Junior  Supplementary  material: 
Three  Near  East  picture 
sheets,  The  Armenians  and 
Syrians,  Children  of  Bible 
Lands,  Egypt.  Price  15c. 
each. 
Near  East  Painting  Book. 

Primary  Near  East  Picture  Stories: 
Six  pictures  9>^  x  12>^  in- 
ches with  a  story  for  each  in 
form  suitable  for  telling. 
Price  35c. 


Materials  on  Home 

Missions 

Frank  Higgins,  Trail  Blazer. 
A  biography  of  the  famous 
missionary  to  the  lumber 
camps  of  Minnesota,  written 
by  his  associate,  Rev.  Thos. 
D.  Whittles.  Ready  March 
1,1920.  Cloth,  75c.;  paper, 
50c. 

The  City  of  Is-To-Be.  A  book 
of  stories  appropriate  to  the 
theme.  The  Church  and  the 
Community,  by  Rev.  Jay  T. 
Stocking,  of  Montclair,  N.  J. 
To  be  published  jointly  with 
the  Council  of  Women  for 
Home  Missions.  Ready  in 
April,  1920.  Cloth,  75c.; 
paper,  50c. 

Supplementary     material: 
Picture  sheet.  Children  of  the 
City.    Price  15c. 
The  model  of  a  city:  cut-outs 
to  be  colored. 


Children  of  the  Community 
Picture  Stories:  Six  child's 
welfare  pictures  9^  x  12>^ 
inches  with  a  story  for  each 
in  form  suitable  for  telling. 
Price  35c. 


Beginners       Two  Near  East  cloth  dolls.      Two  American  cloth  dolls. 

Summer  Conferences 

Missionary  Education  Conferences  are  for  the  purpose  of  training 
missionary  leaders.  It  is  assumed  that  all  who  come  are  interested  in 
Christian  missions.  The  conferences  will  broaden  the  knowledge  of 
missions,  instruct  in  principles  and  methods  of  missionary  instruction, 


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and  deepen  life  purposes.  These  are  the  conferences  which  were  con- 
ducted by  the  Missionary  Education  Movement  until  1919  when  it  be- 
came the  Missionary  Education  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement.  The  preservation  of  the  high  educational  ideals  which  for 
nearly  twenty  years  have  made  these  the  outstanding  missionary  educa- 
tion conferences  of  the  United  States  is  assured  by  this  department's, 
responsibility  in  matters  of  program  and  management  of  the  conferences. 
The  Interchurch  Field  Department  is  responsible  for  the  promotion  of 
the  conferences. 

Who  Can  Attend? 

Any  one  may  be  a  delegate,  but  no  invitation  is  extended  to  those 
who  do  not  intend  to  take  a  substantial  portion  of  the  program.  These 
conferences  are  not  designated  as  economical  summer  outings  for  those 
seeking  recreation  or  congenial  company  only.  There  will  be  both  good 
company  and  recreation,  but  the  confessed  purpose  is  to  train  for  better 
leadership  and  only  those  who  accept  this  view  are  invited.  Delegates 
between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  twenty  will  be  organized  into  a  group 
known  as  Servants  of  the  King.  They  will  be  an  integral  part  of  the  con- 
ference, participating  in  the  general  program  but  electing  certain  courses 
provided  particularly  for  them. 

Relation  to  Denominational  Conferences 

Denominational  young  people's  conferences  have  so  greatly  multi- 
plied of  late  years  as  to  prompt  the  query  whether  these  have  met  the 
needs  for  which  the  Missionary  Education  Conferences  were  originally 
organized.  Those  responsible  for  the  denominational  conferences  would 
be  the  first  to  insist  upon  the  necessity  of  the  Missionary  Education, 
Conferences.  Young  people's  denominational  conferences  usually  at- 
tempt to  cover  the  whole  range  of  young  people's  societies.  Their  courses 
are  of  necessity  much  diversified  and  elementary.  The  Missionary 
Education  Conferences  specialize  on  one  thing — missionary  education — • 
and  attract  those  who  have  had  the  advantages  of  such  young  people's 
conferences,  or  their  equivalent,  and  now  seek  added  training  for  leader- 
ship. The  work  is  not  high-brow  nor  academic,  although  intensive  and 
fundamental. 

Program 

Mission  Study.  The  program  will  provide  courses  in  the  mission 
study  text  books  for  1920-1921.  Among  these  will  be:  "The  Near  East 
—Crossroads  of  the  World,"  by  William  H.Hall;  "The  Church  and  the 
Community,"  by  Ralph  E.  Diffendorfer;  and  "The  Bible  and  Missions," 


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by  Mrs.  Helen  B.   Montgomery.     Several  additional  courses  will  be 
offered. 

Graded  Missionary  Instruction.  In  addition  to  mission  study  there 
will  be  courses  in  missionary  dramatics,  story  telling,  program  building 
and  graded  missionary  instruction  for  primaries,  juniors,  intermediates, 
seniors,  young  people  and  adults. 

Information  and  Inspiration 

Speakers  of  national  and  international  fame  will  present  stirring 
messages  at  the  platform  and  vesper  meetings. 

Rest  and  Recreation 

The  afternoons  of  the  conferences  are  kept  free  for  rest  and  recrea- 
tion. Field  and  track  events,  baseball,  tennis,  water  sports  and  tramp- 
ing ofifer  a  variety  of  recreation  from  which  the  delegates  may  choose. 

Fellowship 

One  of  the  golden  opportunities  of  the  conferences  is  the  fellowship  of 
choice  missionary  workers.  Rich  friendships  result  from  every  conference. 

1920  Dates 

WinterPark,Fla.,  June  3  to  June  10  Asilomar,  Cal.,      Julv  13  to  July  23 

Blue  Ridge,N.  C,  June  25  to  July  5  Ocean  Park,  Me.,  July  20  to  July  30 

Silver  Bay,  N.Y.,  July  9  to  July  19  Lake  Geneva,Wis.,"july23  to  August  2 

Estes  Park,  Col.,  July  9  to  July  19  Seabcck,  Wash.,    July28toAugust7 

Special  Information 

An  enrolment  fee  of  five  dollars  is  charged  each  delegate.  Rates  for 
room  and  board  for  the  ten  days  are  from  twenty  dollars  uj). 

The  program  of  each  conference  will  be  ready  in  a  few  weeks  and 
can  be  secured  upon  application. 

Reservations 

Attendance  at  all  conferences  is  limited.  Reservations  will  be  made 
as  nearly  as  possible  in  the  order  of  application.  Registration  fees  will 
be  returned  to  any  who  apph'  after  all  accommodations  are  taken. 

Address  all  inc[uiries  to  Field  l)e])artmeiU,  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment, 45  West  18th  Street,  New  York  City. 


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Leader  Training  Institutes 

The  Department  has  only  made  a  beginning  in  the  conduct  of 
leader  training  institutes,  which  are  held  any  time  through  the  year  in 
cities.  The  plan  of  these  is  to  train  local  leaders  of  mission  study  classes 
through  an  intensive  five-day  course,  from  Monday  till  Friday,  sessions 
beginning  at  five  and  continuing  until  nine,  with  an  hour  out  for  supper 
with  an  address  from  the  platform. 

Variations  from  this  schedule  may  be  made  for  reason,  but  ex- 
perience has  showm  this  to  be  the  most  successful  plan.  Just  so  soon  as 
an  adequate  staff  has  been  organized  it  is  the  intention  of  this  Depart- 
ment to  spread  these  institutes  wddely  and  thus  carry  help  similar  to 
that  which  the  summer  conferences  furnish  to  multitudes  of  people 
who  can  never  attend  the  summer  gatherings. 

The  Church  School  of  Missions 

Upon  these  institutes  and  summer  conferences  rests  the  best  hope 
for  the  CHURCH  SCHOOL  OF  MISSIONS,  which  is  a  new  idea  that 
should  take  root  over  the  whole  country.  The  CHURCH  SCHOOL 
OF  MISSIONS  is  the  whole  church  busy  in  graded  missions  study 
classes  at  the  same  hour,  each  class  studying  its  preferred  book,  either 
home  or  foreign  missions.  The  young  people's  Sunday  evening  hour 
has  been  the  favorite  time  for  such  a  CHURCH  SCHOOL  OF 
MISSIONS.    The  term  of  the  school  is  six  or  eight  weeks. 

But  not  every  church  can  send  ranks  of  people  to  these  training 
institutes.  This  Department  has  therefore  prepared  a  Mission  Study 
Class  Manual  and  prepares  Suggestions  for  Leaders  to  accompany 
each  text  book.  Thus  every  church  with  just  ordinary  people  can  go 
forward  with  the  Church  School  of  Missions,  if  only  the  planning  be 
done  early  and  carefully.  This  is  perhaps  the  next  important  educational 
step  for  our  churches.  This  will  reinforce  the  argument  for  steward- 
ship, will  reinforce  the  pleas  for  life  service,  and  will  give  new  objects 
for  intercession. 

Two-Fold  Object 

Missionary  Education  may  be  thought  of  (i)  as  part  of  our  program 
of  religious  education  and  (2)  as  necessary  to  develop  intelligent  and 
generous  support  for  the  Church's  missionary  program. 

1 .  No  literature  but  the  Bible  is  so  valuable  for  teaching  that  this 
is  God's  world,  that  He  has  a  plan  for  everyone,  that  Christ  is  the 
universal  Saviour,  and  that  highest  joy  comes  in  obedience  and  service. 

2.  It  is  clear  that  no  ample  support  can  be  expected  when  people 
do  not  know  of  missions.  Intelligence  plus  generosity  will  develop  a 
proprietary  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Boards. 


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INDUSTRIAL   RELATIONS   DEPARTMENT 

CHAPTER  X 
INDUSTRIAL  RELATIONS  DEPART xMENT 

THE  Department  of  Industrial  Relations  has  been  created  to  cooperate 
with  the  denominational  agencies  in  the  immediate,  concrete  and 
effective  application  of  the  great  commandment  to  the  problems  of 
human  relationship  in  the  community  and  in  industry. 

In  the  parable  of  the  good  Samaritan,  Jesus  taught  that  we  are  all 
neighbors.  How  can  we  manifest  our  love  for  one  another  as  neighbors 
and  as  brothers,  unless  we  know  one  another,  know  one  another's  minds 
and  hearts,  the  conditions  under  which  we  live  and  do  our  work  in  the 
world?  Is  it  not  time  that  all  the  knowledge  of  the  world,  all  the  tech- 
nique of  modern  scientific  inquiry  should  be  put  at  the  disposal  of  the 
men  and  women  who  are  pledged  to  concrete  and  sustained  obedience  to 
the  great  commandment? 

Purpose  of  the  Department 

In  this  faith,  the  Department  undertakes  to  study  the  conditions 
under  which  men,  women  and  children  labor  in  this  and  other  lands; 
to  hear  what  they  have  to  say  about  their  own  lives  and  their  own  tasks; 
to  hear  what  employers  have  to  say  about  the  conditions  of  industry 
and  the  problems  of  management;  to  gather  the  most  recent  and  most 
reliable  information  from  the  whole  world  of  business  and  industry  and 
to  point  out,  with  respect  to  particular  problems,  the  approach  towards 
a  solution  that  is  indicated  by  the  life  and  teaching  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth. 

Statement  of  Objectives 

The  objectives  of  the  Department,  as  approved  by  the  General 
Committee  of  the  Movement,  are: 

1.  To  formulate  and  give  expression  to  principles  and  policies 
with  reference  to  industrial  relationships; 

2.  To  disseminate  a  knowledge  of  the  historic  development  of 
economic  and  social  conditions; 

3.  To  represent  the  Movement  in  its  relation  to  outside  economic, 
social  and  governmental  agencies  as  related  to  the  solution  of  industrial 
problems; 

4.  To  Insist  that  the  principles  of  Jesus  be  applied  to  all  such 
matter  as  property,  industrial  organization,  etc. 


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Gathering  the  Facts 

Because  of  the  imperfect  state  of  our  knowledge  with  respect  to  the 
perplexing  problems  of  human  relationship  in  the  community  and  in 
industry,  it  is  essential  that  the  church  should  search  out  the  facts  in 
order  that  it  may  be  competent  to  point  out  clearly  the  way  to  the  just 
and  righteous  reconstruction  of  society. 

Scientific  surveys  are  of  supreme  importance  as  a  means  of  informing 
the  public  of  the  way  in  which  communities  and  industries  are  organized 
and  governed  for  the  service  of  the  people. 

Applying  the  Principles 

Nothing  is  more  certain  than  that  a  condition  of  affairs  that  breeds 
hatred  and  engenders  strife,  violates  the  principles  of  the  social  order  in 
which  men  ought  to  live  in  relation  to  God  as  sons,  and  to  one  another 
as  neighbors  and  brothers. 

Confronted  by  precisely  such  a  condition  of  affairs,  this  Department 
has  undertaken  to  ascertain  and  define,  not  merely  the  material  facts 
but  also  the  moral  principles  involved  in  all  social  and  industrial  relations 
in  the  city  and  town,  on  the  farm,  and  in  industry.  Members  of  its 
staff  are  actively  cooperating  with  the  leaders  of  the  cooperative  move- 
ment in  spreading,  by  education,  a  knowledge  of  the  achievements  and 
the  business  methods  of  cooperation.  They  are  collaborating  in  the 
groups  of  farmers  to  discover  the  conditions  under  which  farmers,  farm 
laborers  and  migratory  workers  live  and  render  their  service  to  the 
community  in  order  that  through  knowledge  the  principles  of  Jesus  may 
be  effectively  applied  to  human  relationship  in  agriculture.  They  are! 
making  industrial  surveys  in  typical  industrial  communities  and  in  the 
basic  industries;  they  are  amassing  facts  and  working  out  programs  of 
practical  action  on  such  vital  matters  as  housing,  minimum  standards  of 
living,  women  in  industry,  racial  relations,  child  labor,  democracy  and 
representative  government  in  industry,  immigration,  the  life  of  the! 
immigrant  in  America  and  his  true  Americanization. 


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Interchurch  Industrial  Conference 

In  order  that  its  work  and  plans  should  be  understood  and  have 
the  full  support  of  the  denominations  and  organizations  cooperating  in 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  the  Department  held  a  conference  in 
New  York  City  in  October,  191 9,  which  was  attended  by  about  two 
hundred  delegates  appointed  by  Home  Missions  and  Social  Service 
Boards,  together  with  a  number  of  sociological,  business,  labor  and 
governmental  experts. 

The  conference,  without  any  attempt  to  represent  officially  the 
cooperating  communions — who  could  not  in  any  sense  be  bound  by  the 
declarations  of  a  more  or  less  voluntary  group — nevertheless  felt  that  a 
suggestive  statement  of  the  consensus  of  its  own  opinions,  even  though 
not  authoritative,  might  be  helpful  in  outlining  those  fundamental 
Christian  principles ,  such  as  might  be  applicable  to  all  industrial  prob- 
lems. No  attempt  was  made  by  the  conference  to  apply  specific  remedies 
to  particular  cases,  but  rather  to  formulate  a  general  body  of  opinion. 


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Points  in  the  Social  Creed  of  the  Churches,  Adopted  by  the 
Federal  Council  of  Churches  of  Christ  in  America 

The  Church  Must  Stand: 

I.     For  the  equal  rights  and  complete  justice  for  all  men  in  all  sta- 
tions of  life. 


3.  For  the  fullest  possible  development  for  every  child,  especially 
by  the  provision  of  proper  education  and  recreation. 

4.  For  the  abolition  of  child  labor. 

5.  For  such  regulations  of  the  conditions  of  toil  for  women  as  shall 
safeguard  the  physical  and  mora)  health  of  the  community. 

6.  For  the  abatement  and  prevention  of  poverty. 


9.  For  the  protection  of  the  worker  from  dangerous  machinery, 
occupational  diseases  and  mortahty. 

10.  For  the  right  of  all  men  to  the  opportunity  for  self-mainte- 
nance, for  safeguarding  this  right  against  encroachments  of  every 
kind,  and  for  the  protection  of  workers  from  the  hardships  of  enforced 
unemployment. 

11.  For  suitable  provision  for  the  old  age  of  the  workers,  and  for 
those  incapacitated  by  injury. 

12.  For  the  rights  of  employees  and  employers  ahke  to  organize; 
and  for  adequate  means  of  conciliation  and  arbitration  in  industrial 
disputes. 

13.  For  a  release  from  employment  one  day  in  seven. 

14.  For  a  gradual  and  reasonable  reduction  of  the  hours  of  labor 
to  the  lowest  practical  point,  and  for  that  degree  of  leisure  for  all  which 
is  a  condition  of  the  highest  human  life. 


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Findings  of  Interchurch  Industrial  Conference 

The  basic  ethical  principles  of  individual  and  social  life  may  be 
briefly  summarized  as  follows: 

1.  The  inestimable  value  of  the  individual  and  the  right  of  the 
individual  to  the  fullest  development  of  personality". 

2 .  Service,  the  supreme  motive  of  human  activity  and  the  only  true 
test  of  human  valuation  and  achievement. 

3.  The  inescapable  responsibility  of  all  individuals  for  complete 
devotion  to  the  welfare  of  the  whole  social  order  and  to  the  end  of 
establishing  a  genuine  human  brotherhood. 

We  urge  upon  all  parties  interested  in  production,  the  recognition 
and  application  of  the  following  and  similar  methods  for  industrial  re- 
adjustment: 

1.  The  representation  of  the  various  parties  in  the  government 
of  industry. 

2 .  The  right  of  workers  to  organize  themselves  for  the  development 
of  just  and  democratic  methods  of  collective  bargaining  between  organi- 
zations of  employers  and  workers.  All  differences  in  industry  involving 
human  relationship  are  subject  to  discussion,  and  before  final  action 
is  taken  both  sides  are  under  moral  obligation  to  confer  together  through 
their  ofl&cial  representatives,  even  the  minority  being  entitled  to  a 
hearing. 

3.  The  rational  extension  of  cooperative  movements  in  both  the 
production  and  distribution  of  goods. 

4.  In  relation  to  the  industrial  status  of  women,  freedom  of  choice 
of  occupation,  the  assurance  of  equal  opportunities  with  man  in  technical 
and  vocational  training,  the  determination  of  wages  on  the  basis  of  occu- 
pation and  service  and  not  upon  the  basis  of  sex,  the  establishment  of 
healthful  conditions  of  employment  and  an  equal  voice  with  men  in  the 
democratic  control  and  management  of  society. 

5 .  The  recognition  of  the  right  of  our  twelve  million  Negro  fellow- 
Americans  to  economic  justice  and  to  freedom  from  economic  exploi- 
tation. 

6.  The  recognition  of  the  right  of  foreign-born  laborers  to  equal 
opportunities  in  their  conditions  of 'labor;  the  application  of  democratic 
principles  to  native  and  foreign-born  alike  in  all  relationships. 

Justice  demands  that  all  channels  of  publicity  and  education  be 
kept  free  for  full  and  impartial  discussion . 


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FIELD   DEPARTMENT 

CHAPTER  XI 

FIELD  DEPARTMENT 

THE  Field  Department  is  the  agency  by  which  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  is  articulated  to  the  individual  church.  It  is  charged 
primarily  with  responsibility  for  setting  up  the  machinery  of  cooperation 
that  will  bring  the  united  resources  of  evangelical  Christianity  to  bear 
upon  the  common  responsibiUties  of  the  churches.  It  naturally  functions 
with  the  Promulgation  Group,  which  also  includes  the  Publicity,  Liter- 
ature, and  Periodical  Departments. 

The  Duty  of  the  Department 

The  first  business  of  the  Department  is  to  organize  and  train 
a  competent  field  organization  through  which  the  Movement  can 
transmit  its  message.  This  organization,  in  turn,  will  cooperate  with 
the  several  denominational  and  interdenominational  organizations. 
It  will  be  clear  that  the  duty  of  the  Department  is  not  so  much  to  formu- 
late general  policies  for  the  activities  of  the  Movement  as  to  aid  the 
several  departments  in  carrying  forward  their  particular  work  in  the 
field.  The  Executive  Committee  undertakes  to  say,  in  general,  what 
things  the  Movement,  through  its  departments,  should  do.  It  is  the 
function  of  the  Field  Department  to  see  that  these  things  are  done. 
It  is  obvious  that,  to  avoid  within  the  movement  the  very  duplication 
of  effort  and  competition  that  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  is  de- 
signed to  prevent,  no  other  department  or  individual  should  initiate  a 
program  and  seek  to  put  it  in  force  without  reference  to  the  Field  Depart- 
ment's carefully  matured  plans  of  action.  New  policies  are  formulated 
and  new  programs  of  cooperative  activity  are  mapped  out  as  the  needs 
and  opportunities  of  the  constituent  bodies  of  the  Movement  are  brought 
to  light  by  the  surveys. 

Subordinate  Field  Units 

The  administrative  unit  of  the  Field  Department  is  the  state.  In 
each  state  an  advisory  committee  is  formed,  composed  of  representatives 
from  all  cooperating  denominations.  Additional  members  are  added 
to  secure  proper  geographical  distribution,  and  a  representation  of  women; 
also  the  Survey  and  other  departments  of  the  Movement.  The  advisory 
committee  selects  a  chairman,  secretary  and  an  executive  committee. 
It  nominates  a  state  secretary,  who  is  appointed  and  confirmed  by  the 
Director  of  the  Field  Department.     This  secretary,  workin^^  with  the 


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advisory  committee,  is  in  charge  of  all  the  activities  of  the  Field  Depart-  j 
ment  in  the  state.  His  duty  is  to  secure  denominational  cooperation,  to 
forward  the  causes  of  the  various  departments,  to  establish  county 
organizations,  to  promote  all  necessary  conferences  and  conventions, 
and  in  every  way  to  forward  the  plans  and  program  of  the  Movement. 

There  is  also  a  number  of  mobile  men  located  at  the  general  office 
or  in  specific  territories  who  render  any  special  services  which  may  be 
required  and  in  general  keep  the  field  secretaries  in  close  touch  with 
headquarters. 

The  United  Drive 

With  such  an  organization — supported  by  a  barrage  of  publicity 
in  the  news  and  advertising  columns  of  the  religious  and  secular  press 
and  with  posters,  pulpit  utterances  and  every  other  available  means  of 
reaching  the  people — the  Department  will  conduct  a  united  campaign 
for  the  enlistment  of  man  power  and  money  power  to  win  the  world  for 
Christ. 

When  the  necessary  finances  and  workers  have  been  obtained, 
the  Field  Department  will  undertake  to  set  up  the  machinery  by  whicb 
both  may  be  employed  to  the  best  advantage,  always  consulting,  at  all 
points,  the  wishes  of  the  denominational  groups  participating  in  the 
Movement. 


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PUBLICITY   DEPARTMENT 

CHAPTER  XII 
PUBLICITY  DEPARTMENT 

Mailing  List  for  Bulletin 

The  control  of  the  mailing  list  for  The  Interchurch  Bulletin  is  in  the 
New  York  office  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  and  promises 
that  the  Bulletin  will  be  sent  to  individuals  should  not  be  made  freely. 
The  Advertising  and  Distributing  Department  has  entire  control  of 
the  mailing  list. 

Thank  You ! 

Never  adjourn  a  convention  or  conference  without  passing  a  vote 
of  thanks  to  the  newspapers  for  their  generous  treatment.  If  the  treat- 
ment was  not  generous — thank  them  anyway.  Probably  they  will  do 
better  next  time. 

The  Movement  No  ''Piker" 

The  Movement  believes  in  paid  advertising.  Everyone  is  appre- 
ciative of  the  fact  that  the  Movement  has  already  had  free  space  in  the 
newspapers  of  the  country  which,  if  paid  for  at  advertising  rates,  would 
bankrupt  the  Movement.  The  Movement  appreciates  free  advertising, 
especially  in  these  days  of  the  high  cost  of  labor,  paper  and  ink.  But 
the  Movement  is  no  "piker,"  to  use  the  language  of  the  advertising 
office.  Plans  are  now  in  preparation  for  the  biggest  campaign  of  paid 
advertising  of  the  Gospel  and  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ  that  has  ever 
been  attempted.  Every  speaker  has  authority  to  announce  this  fact 
and  such  a  statement  may  well  be  made  in  every  conference. 


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PERIODICAL  DEPARTMENT 

CHAPTER  XIII 

PERIODICAL  DEPARTMENT 

THE  Periodical  Department  will  publish  three  monthly  magazines: 
World  Outlook,  Everyland,  and   La  Nueva   Democracia    (The  New 
Democracy).  ^^^^j^  q^^j^^j^ 

World  Outlook,  formerly  published  by  the  mission  boards  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  was  taken  over  by  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  with  the  November  number.  The  magazine  will  continue 
to  be  conducted  along  undenominational  lines,  but  the  number  of  pages 
will  be  increased  from  thirty-two  to  sixty-four. 

The  purpose  of  World  Outlook  is  to  tell  the  world  story  of  applied 
Christianity.  It  aims  to  be  an  authoritative  magazine  of  world  events 
viewed  from  the  Christian  standpoint.  It  will,  from  month  to  month, 
present,  not  theory  or  preachment,  but  concrete,  graphic  facts. 

The  first  two  Interchurch  numbers  contain  articles  by  John  R. 
Mott,  William  H.  Foulkes,  Franklin  K.  Lane,  A.  Mitchell  Palmer. 
Fred  B,  Fisher,  Ernest  Thompson-Seton,  Frank  Crane,  Ellis  Parker 
Butler,  Toyokichi  lyenaga,  and  Syngman  Rhee.  The  periodical  should 
serve  admirably  in  spreading  vital  missionary  information  and  in  popu- 
larizing the  appeal  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 

Everyland 

Everyland  also  has  been  taken  over  from  the  Missionary  Educa- 
tion Movement.  Miss  Ethel  R.  Peyser  became  editor  with  the  Decem- 
ber number.  The  magazine,  which  contains  thirty-six  pages,  aims  to 
encourage  children  in  the  appreciation  of  all  phases  of  human  life.  It  is 
essentially  missionary  and  spiritual  in  character,  the  word  ''missionary" 
being  interpreted  in  the  broadest  sense. 

La  Nueva  Democracia 

La  Nueva  Democracia  (Spanish — The  New  Democracy)  will  circulate 
in  Latin  America.  It  is  produced  by  the  Department  under  the  imme- 
diate direction  of  the  Committee  on  Cooperation  in  Latin  America.  Dr. 
Juan  Orts  Gonzalez  is  the  editor. 

The  magazine  which  contains  thirty-two  pages,  aims  to  bring 
before  the  people  of  Latin  America  such  Christian  solutions  of  present- 
day  problems  as  are  suggested  or  advocated  by  the  Interchurch  Move- 
ment. It  vv^ill,  furthermore,  serve  as  a  forum  in  which  writers  from  all 
parts  of  the  two  continents  can  exchange  facts  and  opinions  on  the  soli- 
darity of  the  New  World  and  at  the  same  time  tend  to  create  a  better 
international  understanding  and  friendship. 


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LITER.\TURE   DEPARTMENT 


CHAPTER  XIV 
LITERATURE  DEPARTMENT 

THE  principal  function  of  the  Literature  Department  is  to  initiate 
and  supervise  all  literature  published  by  the  Movement.  The 
Department  is  designed  to  serve  other  departments  as  fully  as  pos- 
sible. It  is  clear  that  this  can  only  be  done  through  the  freest  exchange 
of  ideas  with  these  several  departments.  In  order  to  insure  the  fullest 
measure  of  cooperation,  it  is  provided  that  other  departments  in  the 
movements  shall  not  print  or  publish  any  books,  pamphlet,  leaflet, 
map,  chart  or  other  piece  of  printing,  but  shall  in  all  cases  obtain  what- 
ever is  needed  through  the  agency  of  the  Literature  Department. 

All  requests  for  publication  of  any  material  should  therefore  be 
made  direct  to  the  Department  and  all  manuscripts  for  printed  matter, 
to  be  issued  over  the  imprint  of  the  Movement,  must  in  due  time  and 
in  proper  form  be  submitted  to  the  Department. 

The  Department  seeks  to  make  the  printed  page  carry  in  effective 
form  the  message  of  the  Movement.  It  standardizes  printed  matter 
for  systematic  use  within  the  organization.  It  issues  the  announcement 
circulars,  the  workers'  handbooks  and  syllabi,  the  various  department 
leaflets,  reports  of  conferences  etc.  It  also  publishes  pamphlets,  book- 
lets and  books  of  popular  education  for  the  Movement  in  large  quantities 
at  nominal  prices. 

A  descriptive  list.  No.  459,  of  literature  now  available  will  be  for- 
warded on  request. 


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CHAPTER  XV 
WOMEN'S  ACTIVITIES  DEPARTMENT 

WOMEN  of  America  are  called  upon  as  never  before  to  visualize 
the  need  of\the  womanhood  of  the  world.  Women  are  standing  on  a 
higher  plane  and  planning  in  a  broader  way  than  they  were  before  the 
war.  We  dare  not  let  them  drop  back  to  the  old  limitations  that  sel- 
fishness and  indifference  had  placed  around  them. 

Women  need  the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  They  need 
to  enlarge  their  views.  They  need  to  work  interdenominationally, 
even  as  they  have  begun  to  do  in  their  splendid  union  institutions  on  the 
foreign  field. 

Everyone  agrees  that  the  woman's  place  is  in  the  home,  but  her 
place  in  the  home  is  also  a  vital  factor  in  world  history  and  world 
development.  Woman's  work  is  race  preservation  and  race  improve- 
ment. The  pagan  nations  accept  only  half  of  that  statement.  Chris- 
tianity accepts  the  whole. 

"We  believe  that  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  may  be  also  an 
interhome  and  intersex  movement,"  says  Mrs.  Grace  G.  Farmer,  Director 
of  Women's  Activities  Department,  and  Associate  General  Secretary 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  "and  that  the  day  for  the  segre- 
gation of  women  is  gone." 

A  Declaration  of  Independence 

Mrs.  Farmer  has  formulated  a  new  declaration  of  independence 
for  women,  to  show  the  relation  which  all  women  sustain  to  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement.    This  declaration  reads: 

"When  in  the  course  of  human  events  it  becomes  necessary  for 
church  women  to  seek  closer  cooperation  with  clergy  and  laymen  in  the 
tasks  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  rather  than  to  emphasize 
the  separate  and  equal  station  to  which  the  laws  of  nature  entitle  them, 
a  decent  respect  to  the  opinions  of  mankind  requires  that  they  should 
declare  the  policy  that  they  desire  to  follow. 

"We  hold  these  truths  to  be  self-evident — that  men  and  women 
ire  intended  by  their  Creator  to  be  free  and  equal;  that  they  are  endowed 
by  the  Creator  with  certain  inalienable  rights;  that  among  these  are 
life,  liberty  and  the  acquiring  of  spiritual  resources.  That  to  secure 
these  rights,  departments  and  divisions  are  instituted  in  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  deriving  their  just  powers  from  the  consent  of  the 
General  and  Executive  Committees. 


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"Prudence  indeed  will  dictate  that  women's  boards,  societies  and 
local  federations  long  established  and  well  organized  should  not  be 
changed  or  their  methods  or  achievements  lost  sight  of;  and  accordingly 
we  intend  to  conserve  all  the  good  of  the  past  and  to  plan  wisely  for  the 
future  of  the  womanhood  of  the  world. 

"But  in  this  age  of  cooperation  when  the  segregation  of  women 
is  no  longer  in  vogue,  we  solemnly  publish  and  declare  that  church  women 
are,  and  of  right  ought  to  be,  free  and  independent  Christians;  that 
they  should  share  responsibility  in  any  and  all  departments  of  the  Move- 
ment in  which  they  would  naturally  feel  interest  and  exert  influence, 
and  that  the  director  of  the  Women's  Activities  Department  should 
consult  freely  with  the  directors  of  other  departments  in  formulating 
new  plans  and  executing  the  same.  And,  for  the  support  of  this  policy, 
with  a  firm  reliance  on  the  protection  of  Divine  Providence,  we  urge 
all  Protestant  church  women  everywhere,  to  pledge  to  each  other  their 
lives,  their  fortunes  and  their  sacred  honor." 

The  Department  Proposes 

1.  To  serve  the  boards  in  all  their  varied  activities  without  dis- 
turbing existing  agencies  of  the  evangelical  churches. 

2.  To  help  organize  many  more  (local)  Women's  Church  and 
Missionary  Federations  as  suggested  by  the  Council  of  Women  for  Home 
Missions  and  the  Federation  of  Women's  Boards  of  Foreign  Missions. 

3.  To  enroll  700  volunteer  speakers  for  the  3,000  County  Con- 
ferences of  the  Field  Department. 

4.  To  offer  to  women  of  all  cooperating  communions  training  in 
platform  presentation  of  the  needs  of  the  mission  fields  and  of  the  means 
by  which  the  boards  aim  to  meet  these  needs. 

5.  To  enlarge  the  constituency  of  women's  boards  by  persistent 
publicity  of  the  needs  of  neglected  women  and  children  of  all  lands 
through  correspondence,  literature,  committees,  conferences. 

6.  To  urge  definite  study  of  the  new  survey  material. 

7.  To  make  a  serious  and  determined  effort  to  reach,  inspire  and 
enlist  the  unchurched  and  indifferent  women  of  every  Protestant  com- 
munity for  Jesus  Christ  and  His  program. 


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Plan  of  Cooperation 

An  advisory  committee  of  three  from  the  Council  of  Women  for 
Home  Missions  and  three  from  the  Federation  of  Women's  Boards  of 
Foreign  Missions  will  assist  the  Director  of  the  Women's  Activities 
Department  in  further  plans  for  active  cooperation  with  the  work 
of  all  other  departments  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

The  ''Key  Woman"  and  Her  Job 

In  each  church  a  "key  woman"  should  be  selected  to  be  the  medium 
of  communication,  but  every  Christian  woman  should  bear  a  double 
relationship  to  the  Interchurch  Movement  and  be  doubly  interested  in 
its  success — first  as  a  church  member,  second,  as  a  member  of  a  woman's 
missionary  organization.    Her  program  as  an  individual  should  be: 

1.  To  maintain  Church  and  board  activity. 

2.  To  advertise  loyally  the  advantages  of  the  Interchurch  Move- 
ment in  making  for  economy,  evangelism,  and  enlargement  of  plans. 

3.  To  offer  volunteer  service  to  her  own  church  and  also  to  the 
Women's  Activities  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

4.  To  pray  constantly  that  in  all  plans  the  spiritual  and  the  cooper- 
ative be  considered  of  chief  importance. 

5 .  To  cultivate  enthusiasm  for  the  great  power  that  church  women 
can  exert  in  advertising  and  working  through  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement. 

A  Great  Potential  Force 

The  Women's  Activities  Department  is  dealing  with  sixty  per  cent, 
of  the  membership  of  the  evangelical  churches.  Known  to  all  is  women's 
magnificent  service  in  home  and  foreign  mission  fields.  In  the  united 
study  of  missions  and  in  the  publication  of  text  books  for  interdenomi- 
national use  women  were  pioneers,  and  women's  boards  were  quick  to 
recognize  the  advantages  of  cooperation  along  all  lines  of  the  Inter- 
church Movement. 

Over  Seven  Millions  to  Work  Upon 

There  are  at  present  ten  million  women  and  girls  in  the  mem- 
bership of  the  Protestant  churches,  of  whom  only  two  and  a  half  million 
are  definitely  enrolled  to  support  the  mission  enterprise  through  woman's 
missionar}^  societies.  It  is  hoped  by  these  Interchurch  efiforts  greatly 
to  increase  the  constituency  of  those  who  will  contribute  time  and 
talent  as  well  as  money  to  the  tremendous  projects  for  the  uplift  of 
the  women  of  the  world. 


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CHAPTER  XVI 

LAYMEN'S  ACTIVITIES  DEPARTMENT 

A  NATIONAL  conference  of  laymen  was  held  under  the  direction 
of  the  Laymen's  Activities  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  in  the  William  Penn  Hotel,  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  January  31, 
February  i,  and  2,  1920. 

Purposes  of  the  Conference: 

First:  To  appraise  the  present  times  in  terms  of  Christian  faith  and 
living.     To  call  all  classes  of  men  to  definite  Christian  service. 

Second:  To  bring  to  each  man  of  the  conference — and  through  the  men 
of  the  conference  to  the  men  of  the  church  everywhere — the  conviction 
of  each  man's  personal  responsibility  for  facing  the  whole  Christian  task 
in  order  that  he  may  intelligently  and  fully  relate  himself  to  it. 

Third:  To  give  attention  to  all  phases  of  Christian  activity  in  which 
laymen  are  now  being  enlisted;  to  lay  bare  great  neglected  opportunities, 
and  to  challenge  the  men  of  the  church  with  the  entire  task  of  the  king- 
dom. 

Fourth:  To  present  and  discuss  in  open  forum  the  programs  now  be- 
ing promoted  by  denominational  and  interdenominational  men's  agencies. 

To  find  methods  by  which  the  strength  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  may  be  added  to  these  programs  and  to  suggest  plans  by  which 
they  may  be  given  the  wisest  possible  distribution. 

Fifth:  To  consider  fully  the  message  of  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment and  to  offer  suggestions  for  broadening  its  scope  and  increasing 
its  power — particularly  by  bringing  forward  plans  through  which  the 
principles  of  the  Laymen's  Department  may  be  effectively  applied 
throughout  the  church  and  nation. 

Sixth:  To  formulate  aYid  release  a  message  to  the  laymen  of  the  nation. 


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This  message  had  a  continental  significance  because  of  the  program 
presented  and  the  emphasis  placed  upon  those  spiritual  values  that 
alone  are  adequate  for  the  problems  of  our  disturbed  times. 

Delegates  in  attendance: 

1.  Representatives  of  all  denominational  men's  movements. 

2.  Representatives  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 

3.  Representatives  of  the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ 
in  America. 

4.  Representatives  of  interdenominational. men's  organizations. 

5.  Representatives  of  particular  forms  of  lay  service  possible  of 
expansion. 

6.  Representatives  of  interdenominational  societies  having  special 
men's  departments. 

7.  A  few  representative  pastors  for  counsel  and  cooperation  in 
order  that  the  plans  evolved  may  be  in  the  fullest  harmony  with  the 
whole  program  of  the  church. 


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LANTERN    SLIDE   DEPARTMENT 


CHAPTER  XVII 
LANTERN  SLIDE  DEPARTMENT 

THE  Lantern  Slide  Department  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
is  logically  a  part  of  graphic  presentation.    Functionally  it  is  a  part 
of  missionary  education. 

The  work  of  the  Department  is  done  through  five  divisions:  the 
Lecture  Creation  Division,  the  Moving  Pictuie  Division,  the  Photo- 
graphic Division,  the  Standardization  Division  and  the  Production 
Division. 

How  the  Divisions  Function 

The  Lecture  Creation  Division  works  in  intimate  cooperation  with 
the  various  Survey  Departments  in  order  to  produce  the  program  of 
promotion  and  rental  lectures  needed. 

The  Moving  Picture  Division  is  studying  the  situation  regarding 
moving  pictures  now  available.  Based  on  its  findings,  it  will  formulate 
and  submit  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Interchurch  a  proposed 
policy  for  the  use  of  moving  pictures  as  a  means  of  missionary  education. 

Two  expeditions  have  been  sent  abroad  to  get  motion  pictures  in 
North  Africa  and  the  Orient.  These  films  are  to  be  released  in  part 
through  the  regular  theatrical  channels,  under  the  title  "World  Outlook 
on  the  Screen,"  with  the  idea  of  obtaining  wide-spread  missionary 
publicity.  Probably  none  of  these  films  will  be  available  before  the  end 
of  the  summer. 

The  Photographic  Division  has  charge  of  all  photographic  material 
on  hand,  except  negatives.  One  of  its  principal  duties  is  to  initiate  action 
for  the  securing  of  such  additional  pictorial  material  as  is  needed  in  order 
to  make  a  truly  adequate  picture  presentation  of  missions. 

The  Standardization  Division  establishes  the  standards  in  both 
coloring  and  composition  for  all  slide  work. 

The  Production  Division  carries  on  its  work  through  a  Photograi^hic 
Manufacturing  Branch,  a  Coloring  Branch  and  an  Assembling  Branch. 
The  chief  function  of  the  first  branch  is  to  manufacture  lantern  slides. 
It  also  has  the  custody  of  negatives  and  does  such  photographic  work  as 
other  departments  of  the  Movement  may  require.  The  work  of  the 
Coloring  Branch  is  to  color  slides  according  to  standards  established  by 
the  Standardization  Division.  The  completed  lectures  are  finally 
assembled  by  the  Assembling  Branch,  after  which  they  are  turned  over 
to  the  Sales  and  Rental  Department  for  general  use  by  boards  and 
individuals. 


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Summary 

The  primary  task  of  the  Lantern  SUde  Department  is  to  visualize 
the  results  of  the  Survey  and  the  objectives  of  the  Movement  in  lantern 
slide  lectures  to  be  used  by  those  who  are  charged  with  the  responsibility 
of  putting  those  results  and  objectives  before  the  churches.  The  second 
task  of  the  Department  is  to  help  any  leaders  of  denominational  forward 
movements,  who  may  desire  such  help,  in  the  production  of  the  slides 
needed  by  their  field  workers  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  field  campaign. 
The  third  task  of  the  Department,  which  is  of  prime  importance,  is 
the  production  of  illustrated  lectures  for  use  by  pastors  on  a  rental 
basis. 

The  emergency  demands  made  upon  the  Department  for  special 
sets  of  slides  for  the  various  field  campaigns  have  greatly  delayed  the 
regular  rental  program.  Several  lecture  and  hymn  sets  will  be  available 
for  the  churches  after  the  middle  of  April. 

Plans  for  the  Future 

It  is  hoped  that  the  development  of  the  Lantern  SUde  Department 
will  ultimately  lead  to  the  establishment  of  a  great  central  photographic- 
bureau  that  will  be  the  depository  of  all  the  photographic  material  of 
the  various  Boards;  that  will  through  its  photogiaphic  plant  serve  all 
the  Boards  in  the  production  of  photographic  material,  especially  lantern 
slides,  of  a  grade  that  will  be  an  honor  to  the  cause  of  Christ;  that  will 
send  out  its  photographers  to  all  parts  of  the  mission  field  at  home  and 
abroad  and  secure  pictures  that  will  interpret  the  news  of  the  world  in 
terms  of  the  work  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ. 


PART  THREE 


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CHAPTER  XXIII 

COOPERATING  DENOMINATIONAL  BODIES 

AND  DENOMINATIONAL  FORWARD 

MOVEMENTS 

Adventist 

ALTHOUGH  the  Seventh  Day  Adventist  denomination  has  not  for- 
mally endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  its  attitude  is 
generally  favorable.  It  is  sending  out  Interchurch  questionnaires,  thus 
working  in  cooperation  with  the  Survey  Department. 

Northern  Baptist 

The  Northern  Baptist  Church  has  recently  embarked  on  its  New 
World  Movement.  This  is  a  sequel  and  extension  of  its  Victory  Cam- 
paign which  was  concluded  December  i,  1919,  and  which  had  for  its 
financial  goal  the  raising  of  $6,000,000.  The  New  World  Movement 
has  a  larger  program,  including  a  financial  goal  of  $100,000,000;  greatly 
increased  church  membership  and  attendance  in  colleges,  universities 
and  theological  seminaries;  enlistment  for  service  in  the  ministry  and  in 
missionary  work,  and  enUstment  of  every  church  member  for  service, 
prayer  and  stewardship. 

The  New  World  Movement  has  been  authorized  to  participate 
fully  in  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  and  to  underwrite  a  share 
of  the  Interchurch  expenses. 

The  denominational  survey  is  practically  complete  and  will  be 
used  as  the  basis  of  the  financial  appeal;  but  account  will  also  be  taken 
of  the  Interchurch  survey,  in  which  the  Baptist  Foreign  Board  is  co- 
operating. A  Life  Service  Department  has  been  added  to  the  New  World 
Movement  for  the  purpose  of  cooperating  with  the  Life  Work  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  and  the  same  applies  to 
Stewardship  and  Spiritual  Resources. 

The  Interchurch  Movement  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Northern 
Baptist  Convention  and  by  the  Home  and  Foreign  Boards. 


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Southern  Baptist 

The  Southern  Baptist  Church  has  been  conducting  its  Seventy- 
five  Million  Campaign,  a  campaign  to  raise  $75,000,000  for  a  five-year 
program  of  work  in  the  home  and  foreign  fields.  The  only  other  objects 
of  the  campaign  noted  are  securing  100,000  new  subscribers  for  church 
papers  and  100,000  more  for  missionary  publications.  The  financial 
drive  took  place  during  the  week  of  November  30  to  December  7,  1919. 

Individual  Southern  Baptist  churches  and  pastors  have  indicated 
their  desire  to  cooperate  with  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  al- 
though the  denomination,  as  such,  is  not  cooperating. 

National  Baptist  Convention  (Colored) 

The  National  Baptist  Convention,  in  which  are  included  the  New 
England  Baptist  Convention  and  the  Lott  Carey  Foreign  Mission 
Convention,  represents  all  the  organized  interests  of  the  Colored  Baptists 
of  America  numbering  three  and  a  quarter  million  members,  or  approxi- 
mately two-thirds  of  Negro  Christians  in  this  country.  The  Baptists 
plan  to  raise  $9,750,000  in  the  next  five  years  for  Foreign  Missions, 
Home  Missions,  Christian  Education,  Church  Extension,  Ministerial 
Relief  and  the  work  of  their  Women's  Auxiliary.  The  National  Baptist 
Convention  has  underwritten  a  share  of  the  Interchurch  budget. 

The  Seventh  Day  Baptist 

The  Seventh  Day  Baptists  have  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  and  are  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department  in  sending 
out  questionnaires.  The  General  Convention  turned  the  matter  over 
to  an  executive  committee  with  power  to  act  within  the  following  limits: 

"i.  In  the  proposed  cooperation  the  denomination  shall  func- 
tion through  the  New  Forward  Movement  agencies  of  the 
Commission  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

"2.  The  cooperative  movements  are  to  constitute  one  of  the 
agencies  of  the  evangelical  churches. 

"3.     The  cooperation  shall  involve  the  following  features: 

a.  A  common  survey  of  the  home  and  foreign  fields. 

b.  A  united  propaganda  to  reach  the  whole  Protestant 
Church  of  North  America  in  educational  and  inspira- 
tional campaigns. 

c.  A  simultaneous  campaign  to  realize  the  budgets. 


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d.    A  full   presentation   to   the   Interchurch  World   Move- 
ment of  the  Seventh  Day  Baptist  budget  for  all  the  boards 
and  agencies  as   approved   by    the    General    Conference 
or  the  Commission  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
"4..     Cooperation  shall  be  on  the  condition  that  the  funds  raised 
by  the  Seventh  Day  Baptist  churches  and  agencies  shall  be 
paid  to  and  distributed  through  the  regular  channels  of  the 
Seventh  Day  Baptist  churches. 
''5.     No  financial  obligations  for  the  administrative  expenses  of  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement  are  to  be  incurred  without  the 
authorization  of  the  General  Conference  of  the  Commission 
of  the  Executive  Committee." 
The   Scandinavian   Independent   Baptist   denomination   is    cooper- 
ating with  the  Survey  Department  and  its  attitude  toward  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement  is  generally  favorable,  although  it  has  not 
wholly  endorsed  it. 

Church  of   the   Brethren    (Conservative   Dunkers) 

The  General  Mission  Board  of  the  Church  of  the  Brethren  has 
cooperated  with  the  Survey  Department  and  sent  out  Interchurch 
questionnaires.  On  January  28,  1920,  the  General  Boards  of  the  Church 
of  the  Brethren  decided  on  cooperation  with  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  and  will  relate  their  Forward  Movement  with  the  Interchurch 
program. 

Brethren  Church   (Progressive  Dunkers) 

The  Brethren  Church  is  in  the  last  year  of  a  four-year  program 
which  called  for  75  life  workers  and  5,000  new  members.  A  canvass  for 
$300,000  will  be  made  in  the  spring  of  1920. 

The  Brethren  Church  is  cooperating  with  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  and  is  underwriting  a  share  of  the  Interchurch  budget. 

Churches  of  God 

The  Churches  of  God  are  conducting  a  Centennial  Forward  Move- 
ment.    This  eight-year  campaign  of  Spiritual  and  Material  Advance- 
ment was  in  its  third  year  in  1919.     The  movement  is  to  double  the 
!  membership  in  the  Church;  to  increase  Sunday  school  enrolment  by 
I  one-third;  to  place  their  own  literature  in  the  Sunday  schools  and  their 
I  ''Church  Advocate"  in  every  church  family,  and  to  raise  $280,000,  of 
!  which  40  per  cent,  is  to  go  to  missions,  40  per  cent,  to  education   and 
20  per  cent,  to  endowment  of  the  ''Church  Advocate." 


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Christian 

The  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Christian  Church  has  endorsed 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement  and  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  De- 
partment. The  church  is  conducting  a  Forward  Movement,  including 
the  raising  of  $2,000,000  for  benevolences  and  missionary  work  during  a 
five-year  period,  the  asking  in  the  spring  of  1920  to  be  $400,000.  The 
denomination  hopes  to  make  a  ten  per  cent,  increase  in  membership 
each  year,  to  lead  1,000,000  souls  to  Christ  through  foreign  missions,  to 
send  out  50  trained  life  recruits  each  year,  to  increase  Christian  Endeavor 
100  per  cent.,  to  double  prayer  meeting  attendance  and  to  increase 
enrohnent  at  denominational  colleges.  February  4,  1920,  the  American 
Christian  Convention  voted  to  underwrite  the  Interchurch  budget  for 
their  work  of  Home  Missions,  Foreign  Missions,  Education,  Sunday 
school,  Christian  Endeavor  and  Publishing. 

Congregational 

Before  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  was  launched,  the  National 
Council  of  the  Congregational  Churches  in  the  United  States  had 
authorized  a  forward  movement  in  connection  with  its  celebration  of 
the  Tercentenary  of  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims,  the  leading  financial 
feature  of  which  forward  movement  is  the  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund. 
The  minimum  amount  set  for  the  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund  is  $5,000,000, 
the  purpose  being  to  assist  in  providing  annuities  for  aged  ministers  and 
their  dependents.  The  separate  canvass  for  the  Pilgrim  Memorial  Fund 
will  cease  March  31,  1920,  at  which  time  it  is  probable  that  about 
$6,000,000  will  be  assured  in  subscriptions. 

At  the  meeting  at  Grand  Rapids  in  October,  1919,  the  National 
Council  authorized  the  organization  of  the  Congregational  World  Move- 
ment, the  purpose  being  to  bring  together  in  one  great  enterprise  the 
work  of  promotion  of  the  missionary,  educational,  evangelism  and 
recruiting  interests  of  the  Congregational  Churches.  The  Congregational 
World  Movement  was  authorized  to  cooperate  as  fully  as  possible  with 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  The  participation  was  authorized 
in  the  following  words : 

''That  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  be  heartily  endorsed,  and 
the  mission  boards  of  the  denomination  be  asked  to  cooperate  with  it, 
and  that  the  commissions  on  denominational  program  be  instructed  to 
carry  forward  their  task  in  close  relationship  to  the  Movement's  plans." 

The  Council  also  recommended  to  the  participating  boards  that  they 
support  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  financially,  and  the  following 
boards  have  underwritten  the  Movement:  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners   for    Foreign    Missions,    Congregational   Home    Missionary 


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Society,  Congregational  Sunday  School  Extension  Society,  Congrega- 
tional Church  Building  Society. 

The  following  Congregational  boards  and  institutions  are  actively 
participating  in  this  Movement: 

American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions; 

American  Missionary  Association; 

Congregational  Education  Society; 

Congregational  Church  Building  Society 

Congregational  Sunday  School  Extension  Society; 

Congregational  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief; 

Women's  Board  of  Missions; 

Women's  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Interior; 

Women's  Board  of  Missions  for  the  Pacific; 

And  an  important  list  of  theological  seminaries,  colleges,  academies 
and  training  schools. 

Disciples 

The  Disciples  of  Christ  endorsed  the  Movement  in  October,  1919. 
Final  action  was  taken  by  all  eight  of  the  national  boards  of  the  Disciples 
at  a  convention  in  Cincinnati,  October  13-20.  They  pledged  full 
cooperation  in  many  phases  of  the  work  and  instructed  the  proper  officers 
to  underwrite  an  amount  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement's  admin- 
istrative expenses  not  to  exceed  five  per  cent,  of  the  board's  share  in  the 
joint  askings  of  all  the  participating  bodies.  The  boards  also  named 
representatives  to  the  General  Committee  of  the  Movement.  Thus  no 
further  action  is  necessary  to  bring  about  full  participation  by  the 
Disciples. 

At  this  convention  in  Cincinnati  the  eight  national  boards  per- 
fected a  plan  for  united  action  that  is  expected  to  make  more  simple 
their  cooperation  in  the  Movement.  The  boards  are:  Foreign  Chris- 
tian Mission  Society,  American  Christian  Missionary  Society,  Christian 
Women's  Board  of  Missions,  Board  of  Church  Extension,  Board  of  Min- 
isterial Relief,  National  Benevolent  Association,  Board  of  Education 
and  American  Temperance  Board. 

The  denomination  is  conducting  a  Men  and  Millions  Movement 
which  seems  to  be  the  pioneer  of  large  church  movements.  It  began 
in  19 1 2  when  a  missionary  in  China  proposed  raising  $200,000  over  a 
five-year  period.  This  seemed  revolutionary,  but  after  F.  M.  Rains, 
secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  visited  the  foreign  field,  the 
amount  was  increased  to  $500,000  and  later  to  $1,000,000.  The  amount 
was  obtained,  and  this  success  brought  on  a  much  larger  program.  The 
movement  plans  to  raise  $6,300,000  and  to  recruit  1,000  workers  in  the 
home  and  foreign  fields. 


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The  following  boards  are  sharing  in  the  underwriting  of  the  Inter- 
church  budget:  Christian  Woman's  Board  of  Missions,  Board  of  Minis- 
terial Rehef  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  Foreign  Christian  Missionary 
Society  and  Board  of  Church  Extension  of  American  Missionary  Society. 

United  Evangelical 

The  Forward  Campaign  of  the  United  Evangelical  Church  planned 
to  raise  $1,000,000  during  a  five-year  period  for  educational  institutions, 
missionary  work,  church  extension,  relief  of  superannuated  ministers; 
its  goals  also  include  rebuilding  the  family  altar,  enhsting  tithers  through 
a  stewardship  campaign  and  laying  emphasis  upon  private  prayer. 
The  financial  drive  took  place  during  the  autumn  of  1 919. 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Home 
and  Foreign  Missionary  Society  and  the  Board  of  Church  Extension. 
The  former  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department. 

A  special  meeting  of  "The  Committee  on  Episcopal  Activities"  on 
January  19-21,  1920,  adopted  resolutions  expressing  warmest  sympathy 
with  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  and  recommending  that  "our 
ministers  and  people  encourage  the  Movement  in  its  operations  in  so  far 
as  this  is  possible,"  and  that  our  ministers  and  laymen  "attend  the  various 
conferences  held  as  much  as  practicable  and  study  the  Movement  sympa- 
thetically." The  special  financial  campaign  having  been  closed,  the 
United  Evangelical  Church  could  not  underwrite  the  Interchurch 
Movement  in  the  usual  way,  but  the  committee  recommended  "that 
provision  be  made  to  pay  such  sum  or  sums  in  cash  as  seem  equitable  to 
the  boards  to  which  this  matter  may  be  referred." 

Evangelical  Association 

The  Forward  Movement  of  the  Evangelical  Association  proposes  to 
raise  $2,500,000  in  a  five-year  period.  A  canvass  will  be  made  June 
5-20,  1920,  for  $500,000.  Other  objectives  include  500  young  men  for 
the  Christian  ministry  and  missions,  several  hundred  young  women  for 
missions,  deaconesses  and  special  congregational  service,  75,000  tithers, 
the  whole  church  in  a  covenant  of  prayer,  100,000  conversions,  and 
100,000  accessions.  The  association  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey 
Department,  and  beginning  January  i  its  general  program,  with  the 
exception  of  the  financial  appeal,  has  been  coordinated  with  the  program 
of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 


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Evangelical  Synod 

The  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Evangelical  Synod  of  North  A  nierica 
has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  but  is 
cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department  and  will  send  out  questionnaires 
to  the  Women's  Board.  . 

Friends 

The  Forward  Movement  of  the  Friends  in  America  has  for  its  pur- 
pose the  raising  of  $4,000,000  in  the  spring  of  1920. 

The  Interchurch  World  Movement  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Ameri- 
can Friends.     The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  adopted  this  statement: 

''To  record  our  hearty  approval  of  the  proposed  Interchurch  World 
Movement  of  North  America  and  to  request  the  secretary  to  assure  the 
committee  on  arrangements  of  our  readiness  to  assume  our  share  of 
responsibiUty  in  the  preparations  for  and  prosecution  of  the  plans 
of  the  Movement." 

Levi  T.  Pennington,  who  is  director  of  the  Forward  Movement, 
has  been  attending  conferences  of  Interchurch  leaders.  While  the  pro- 
gram of  the  American  Friends  was  adopted  before  that  of  the  Interchurch 
Movement,  they  are  trying  in  every  way  to  make  theirs  fit  in  with  the 
Movement's  program. 

The  Foreign  Missionary  Association  of  the  Friends  of  Philadelphia 
has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Movement,  but  is  cooperating  with  the 
Survey  Department. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Friends  Church  of  California 
has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch  T^Iovement,  but  is  cooperating 
with  the  Survey  Department  and  has  sent  for  questionnaires  for  the 
Women's  Board. 

The  Friends  Missionary  Society  of  the  Ohio  Yearly  Meeting  has  not 
formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch^ Movement,  but  is  cooperating  with 
the  Survey  Department  and  has  sent  for  questionnaires  for  the  Women's 
Board. 

Lutheran 

The  United  Lutheran  Church  during  Thanksgiving  week,  iqiq, 
conducted  a  drive  in  their  Double-the-Apportionment  Movement, 
The  aims  of  this  Movement  were: 

To  put  the  finances  of  the  church  upon  a  budget  basis;  to  mcrease 
by  100  per  cent,  the  amount  given  last  year  to  missions  and  benevolences; 
to  finance  by  this  increase  the  taking  over  of  abandoned  German  Mis- 
sions in  Africa;  to  build  up  the  educational  work  of  the  church  and  to 
make  a  special  effort  to  reach  unchurched  Lutherans. 

The  Double-thc-Apportionment  Movement  is  for  this  year  only, 


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but  the  budget  system  is  to  be  made  permanent.  The  amount  of  in- 
crease needed  will  be  determined  from  year  to  year,  the  amount  called 
for  the  first  year  being  $2,691,000. 

The  general  Lutheran  bodies  have  not  as  yet  taken  definite  action 
on  the  question  of  cooperation  with  the  Interchurch  World  Movement, 
but  some  of  the  district  synods  and  general  boards  have  endorsed  the 
Movement. 

In  the  United  Lutheran  Church  the  Board  of  Education  has  taken 
favorable  action  and  is  cooperating  officially. 

The  Allegheny  Synod  strongly  endorsed  the  Movement  and  me- 
morialized the  general  body  to  cooperate. 

The  Executive  Board  of  the  United  Lutheran  Church,  which  met 
on  January  8,  1920,  decided  that  the  constitution  vested  authority  for 
cooperation  only  in  the  general  body  o-f  the  church .  There  can ,  therefore , 
be  no  official  cooperation  with  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  before 
October  of  this  year,  when  the  United  Lutheran  Church  holds  its  biennial 
meeting  in  Washington,  D.  C,  unless  the  Executive  Board  reverses  its 
decision.  Throughout  the  country  there  has  been  unofficial  Lutheran 
cooperation,  ministers  and  laymen  serving  on  State  Advisory  committees 
and  participating  in  the  surveys. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Nonvegian  Lutheran  Church 
of  America  has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement, 
but  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department. 

Mennonite 

The  Mennonite  Board  of  Missions  and  Charities,  while  it  has  not 
formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch  Movement,  is  cooperating  with  the 
Survey  Department. 

The  Foreign  Missions  Conference  of  the  Mennonite  Brethren  Church 
of  North  America  has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch  Movement, 
but  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  General  Conference  of  the 
Mennonites  of  North  America  has  not  formally  endorsed  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement,  but  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department. 


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Methodist 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  united  their  efforts  in  the  Joint  Centenary  Movement. 
The  final  askings  of  the  Movement,  returnable  on  a  five-year  basis,  were 
for  $140,000,000,  of  which  $35,000,000  was  the  share  of  the  Southern 
Church. 

The  outstanding  results  of  the  Movement,  which  culminated  in  the 
Columbus  celebration,  June  20-July  13,  1919,  were  as  follows:  The  finan- 
cial pledges  have  exceeded  $168,000,000 — $28,000,000  more  than  the 
goal  set;  more  than  250,000  tithers  have  been  enrolled  of  the  one  million 
aimed  at  for  the  whole  five-year  period;  26,000  names  have  been  received 
in  response  to  the  call  for  life-work;  the  Fellowship  of  Intercession  en- 
rolled 225,000  members  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  and 
454,000  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  Centenary  organization  is  being  maintained  practically  intact 
for  the  year  1920,  which  is  called  "Conservation  Year,"  and  the  emphasis 
this  year  is  shifted  to  a  Church-wide  Revival  Campaign. 

The  point  of  contact  with  the  Interchurch  Movement  so  far  has 
been  in  participation  in  the  general  organization,  with  the  special  ob- 
jective of  the  survey  as  the  line  of  activity  in  which  the  churches  are 
authorized  to  cooperate. 

The  Joint  Centenary  Commission  has  endorsed  the  Interchurch 
Movement,  is  cooperating  in  its  spiritual  campaign  and  has  under- 
written a  share  in  the  expenses  of  the  Movement.  The  judicatories 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  do  not  meet  until  next  year;  hence 
the  Church  as  a  body  has  not  had  the  opportunity  of  officially  endorsing 
the  Interchurch  Movement.  In  addition  to  the  Joint  Centenary  Com- 
mission, the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
and  the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  have  endorsed 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  and  these  two  boards,  as  well  as  the 
Women's  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  M.  E.  Church  and  the 
Women's  Missionary  Council  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  are  cooperat- 
ing in  the  survey.  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
has  underwritten  the  Interchurch  budget. 

Free  Methodist  Church 

Free  Methodist  Church  of  North  America.  The  General  Mission- 
ary Board  of  this  church  is  cooperating  in  the  Interchurch  survey. 


COOPERATING  DENOMINATIONAL  BODIES 

African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion 

The  African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion  Church  is  one  of  the  large 
wings  of  the  independent  Negro  Methodist  churches  with  approximately 
600,000  members.  Its  Forward  Movement  calls  for  $1,000,000  in  the 
next  five  years.  The  African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion  Church  has 
underwritten  the  Interchurch  budget. 

Methodist  Protestant  Church 

The  forward  movement  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church  is 
known  as  "The  Forward  Movement  and  Increase  Campaign."  Its 
financial  appeal  (for  $1,000,000),  conducted  in  May,  1919,  was  success- 
ful in  raising  three-quarters  of  the  amount  set.  It  is  hoped  that  the 
balance  may  be  raised  by  the  follow-up  campaign  culminating  in  Decem- 
ber, 19 19.  The  second  part  of  the  program  is  for  the  underwriting  of  the 
apportionments  given  to  the  annual  conferences  for  the  general  mission- 
ary and  educational  work  of  the  denomination.  The  third  part  of  the 
program  is  the  Increase  Campaign  proper,  which  will  reach  its  culmina- 
tion with  the  ingathering  at  Easter,  1920,  and  includes  a  campaign  for 
increased  church  membership,  for  the  enrolment  of  a  league  of  interces- 
sors and  of  tithers,  and  for  enhstment  for  life-work  in  the  ministry  and 
in  the  mission  field. 

Officials,  representing  all  boards  and  institutions,  met  in  Pittsburg, 
January  21,  1920,  and  adopted  resolutions  committing  them  to  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement  and  underwriting  its  budget.  Their  askings  for 
the  year  1920  amount  to  $1,000,000.  "We  are  in  this  Movement," 
writes  the  executive  secretary,  "to  make  our  very  best  contribution." 

Wesleyan  Methodist 

The  Forward  Movement  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church  calls 
for  the  raising  of  $1,000,000  during  a  four-year  period,  and  an  appeal 
for  $250,000  in  the  spring  of  1920.  Other  objectives  include  7,000 
tithers,  and  increases  in  life  workers,  intercessors  and  new  members. 
Beginning  January  i  the  general  program  was  coordinated  with  that  of 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement. 


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Moravian 

The  Moravian  Church  has  in  progress  a  forward  movement  entitled 
"The  Larger  Life  Campaign."  The  program,  which  extends  well  into 
1920,  embraces  as  its  objectives — increased  membership,  enrobnent  of 
tithers,  enrolment  of  a  prayer  union  and  enrolment  for  the  ministr>^  or 
missionary  service.  Plans  for  a  financial  campaign  have  not  yet  been 
matured,  and  the  matter  will  not  be  settled  until  the  Provincial  Synod 
of  the  Church  holds  its  meeting  in  June,  1920. 

The  Moravian  Society  of  the  United  Brethren  for  Propagating 
the  Gospel  among  the  Heathen  has  endorsed  the  Interchurch  Move- 
ment and  is  cooperating  in  the  survey. 

Pentecostal 

The  General  Foreign  Missionary  Board  of  the  Pentecostal  Church 
of  the  Nazarene  is  cooperating  with  the  Survey  Department  of  the  Inter- 
church World  Movement. 

Associate  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church 

The  Associate  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  brought  its  Forward 
Movement  to  a  conclusion  in  November.  The  objectives  of  the  cam- 
paign were:  To  raise  $250,000  over  a  five-year  period;  to  provide  more 
and  better  institutions  of  learning;  to  increase  salaries  so  that  religious 
workers  could  devote  full  time  to  their  duties;  to  provide  the  mission 
fields  with  more  laborers  and  better  physical  equipment;  to  form  a 
League  of  Intercession,  and  to  conduct  a  campaign  of  enlistment  for 
Christian  service. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Associate  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Church  is  cooperating  in  the  Interchurch  survey. 

Presbyterian  (Cumberland) 

Presbyterian  (Cumberland).  The  Women's  Board  of  Missions 
of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  is  favorable  to  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement  and  is  cooperating  in  the  survey. 

Presbyterian  (Associate) 

Presbyterian  (Associate).  This  church  is  ''not  cooperating  formally 
but  is  greatly  interested." 


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The  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  (South) 

The  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States  (South)  is  engaged  in 
its  'Tresbyterian  Progressive  Program,"  extending  from  September, 
1919,  to  April,  1920.  It  is  a  definite  and  comprehensive  program  of 
intercession,  stewardship,  Hfe-work  and  increase  in  membership  and 
Sunday  school  attendance,  with  special  emphasis  on  a  particular  objec- 
tive for  each  month.  The  financial  appeal  is  for  $12,000,000  during  a 
three-year  period,  $4,000,000  to  be  raised  in  the  spring  of  1920. 

The  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States,  in  May,  1919,  adopted  the  principle  of  cooperation  in  and  with 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement,  leaving  the  details  of  the  related 
program  to  the  Assembly  Committee  on  Systematic  Beneficence  and 
Stewardship,  which  later  authorized  the  different  committees  (boards) 
to  underwrite  the  Interchurch  budget. 

The  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Missions  and  the  Home 
Board  have  also  endorsed  the  Movement,  and  the  former  is  cooperating 
in  the  survey. 

Presbyterian  Church  in  U.  S.  A. 

The  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.  (North),  through  its  New 
Era  Movement,  is  cooperating  closely  and  cordially  with  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement.  Official  participation  was  decided  on  by  the  Execu- 
tive Commission  of  the  Presbyterian  General  Assembly  in  October,  191 9, 
when  it  was  also  voted  to  underwrite  a  share  in  the  expenses  of  the 
Movement. 

The  New  Era  Movement  came  into  being  in  May,  1918.  Its 
financial  budget  is  framed  from  year  to  year  according  to  the  estimated 
needs  of  the  Church.  Its  comprehensive  program  includes  Stewardship, 
Missionary  Education,  Social  Service,  Gospel  Extension,  Every  Member 
Mobilization,  and  Publicity.  Adjustments  have  been  made  which  bring 
the  New  Era  and  Interchurch  programs  into  the  closest  possible  harmony, 
and  the  fullest  measure  of  mutual  cooperation  has  been  arranged. 

The  following  boards  had  already  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  previous  to  the  action  of  the  General  Assembly :  Foreign  Board, 
Home  Board,  Women's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Women's  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  (Occidental),  Women's  Board  of  Home  Missions. 


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United  Presbyterian 

The  United  Presbyterian  Church  has  oflficially  endorsed  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement  through  the  action  of  its  General  Assembly 
and  the  fullest  cooperation  is  promised  through  the  New  World  Move- 
ment of  this  Church. 

The  program  of  the  New  World  Movement  embraces  a  financial 
appeal  for  $12,500,000  during  a  three  or  five-year  period;  the  enrolment 
of  50,000  Christian  Stewards,  100,000  Comrades  of  Intercession,  and  the 
enlistment  of  young  people  for  Christian  service,  the  enrolment  of  75 
per  cent,  of  famihes  in  the  Family  Altar  League,  and  new  members 
equal  to  1 2  per  cent,  of  present  membership. 

The  New  World  Movement  plans  the  fullest  possible  participation 
in  the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  Its  calendar  has  been  adjusted 
so  as  to  harmonize  with  that  of  the  Interchurch  Movement  and  its 
financial  appeal  will  be  made  at  the  same  time.  Arrangements  are  also 
being  made  for  underwriting  a  share  in  the  expenses  of  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement. 

The  following  board  had  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
previous  to  the  action  of  the  General  Assembly:  Board  of  Freedmen, 
Convocation  Committee,  Board  of  Home  Missions  and  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions.    The  last  is  cooperating  in  the  survey. 

The  Boards  of  Ministerial  Relief,  Church  Extension  and  Freedmen 
have  underwritten  the  Interchurch  budget. 

Protestant  Episcopal 

The  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  while  believed  to  be  in  sympathy 
with  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  has  not  endorsed  the  Movement. 
The  Church  is  now  conducting  a  Nation- Wide  Campaign  of  education 
and  inspiration.  The  stated  purposes  of  this  campaign  are  to  make  a 
survey  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  at  home  and  abroad  that  the 
compelling  facts  of  the  Church's  task  may  be  brought  to  the  attention 
of  every  member  and  to  raise  a  fund  sufiicient  to  meet  the  needs  of  the 
church  for  a  period  of  three  years.  The  total  is  $42,000,000,  of  which 
$14,000,000  will  be  raised  in  the  spring  of  1920.  During  the  financial 
drive  there  will  be  an  Every  Member  Canvass.  Other  objectives  include 
700  new  clergy  and  770  new  paid  workers.  The  New  York  Diocese  of 
the  church,  while  cooperating  with  the  Nation-wide  Campaign,  had 
planned  a  campaign  of  its  own  but  is  independent  in  name  only.  Dr. 
Robert  W.  Patten  is  the  national  director  of  the  Nation-wide  Campaign 
and  Frank  Merrill  is. director  of  the  Every  Name  Campaign,  the  effort 
of  the  New  York  diocese. 


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COOPERATING  DENOMINATIONAL  BODIES 

Reformed  Church  in  America 

It  was  in  June,  191 8,  that  the  General  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Church 
in  America  authorized  a  Five-year  Progress  Campaign.  The  object 
was  to  revitaUze  church  activity.  A  survey  of  the  home  and  foreign 
fields  was  made  and  a  financial  drive  to  get  $5,500,000  was  decided  upon. 
Beside  the  financial  goal  these  ten  points  of  Progress  were  set  up  for  each 
church:  (i)  to  endeavor  to  double  the  communicant  membership; 
(2)  to  endeavor  to  obtain  at  least  one  candidate  for  the  ministry;  (3) 
to  provide  efficient  training  for  Bible  school  teachers;  (4)  to  organize 
young  peoples'  societies  into  training  schools  for  Christian  service;  (5) 
to  see  that  every  member  is  a  regular  subscriber  or  reader  of  some  Re- 
formed Church  periodical;  (6)  to  organize  an  effective  men's  missionary 
committee;  (7)  to  enlist  every  woman  of  the  church  in  women's  mission- 
ary organizations;  (8)  to  adopt  systematic  and  proportionate  giving; 
(9)  to  contribute  pro  rata  to  all  denominational  boards;  (10)  to  render 
efficient  community,  national  and  world  service. 

The  month  of  November,  1919,  was  devoted  to  a  special  Go-to- 
Church  Campaign;  January,  1920,  was  set  apart  for  a  Christian 
Stewardship  Campaign;  in  March,  1920,  the  financial  drive  will  take 
place. 

The  Church  has  endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement; 
action  having  been  taken  by  the  General  Synod,  Women's  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions,  Women's  Board  of  Domestic  Missions  and  the  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions.  The  last  named  Board  has  sent  out  Interchurch 
questionnaires  for  itself  and  for  the  Women's  Board  also.  The  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  has  voted  to  underwrite  the  Interchurch  budget. 


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Reformed  Church  in  the  United  States 

Through  its  Forward  Movement  now  in  progress  the  Reformed 
Church  in  the  United  States  plans  to  raise  $12,000,000  for  use  over  a 
period  of  five  years  in  the  promotion  of  missionary  and  educational  work 
and  for  ministerial  relief.  Surveys  of  the  home  and  foreign  fields  are  being 
made  and  a  canvass  for  $2,500,000  is  planned  for  the  spring  of  1920. 
The  Church  proposes  to  form  a  League  of  Intercessors  and  to  instruct 
members  in  the  practise  of  Christian  Stewardship.  Attention  was 
called  to  the  campaign  as  a  September  Rally  Day.  The  challenge  to  the 
Fellowship  of  Intercession  was  got  under  way  in  September  and  the 
Fellowship  of  Stewardship  was  launched  in  October.  Sunday,  Decem- 
ber 7,  was  Enrolment  Day  in  the  Fellowship  of  Stewardship  and  the  goal 
was  to  enroll  at  least  25,000  tithing  stewards.  The  General  Synod,  the 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  the  Board  of  Home  Missions,  and  the  United 
Missionary  and  Stewardship  Committee  have  endorsed  the  Interchurch 
World  Movement.  Interchurch  questionnaires  are  being  sent  out  by  the 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  for  itself  and  for  the  Women's  Board  also. 

United  Brethren  in  Christ 

The  United  Enlistment  Movement  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ 
endorsed  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  in  February,  1919. 

Surveys  have  been  made  in  the  home  and  foreign  fields.  An  educa- 
tional and  ministerial  survey  and  a  Sunday  school  survey  have  also 
been  made. 

The  Enlistment  Movement  is  promoting  the  Stewardship  of  Life,  the 
Stewardship  of  Intercession,  the  Stewardship  of  the  Gospel. 

Up  to  February  21,  1920,  1,200  young  men  and  women  had  enrolled 
as  life-work  recruits  for  the  ministry  and  missionary  work,  18,000  tithing 
stewards  were  enrolled,  and  40,000  intercessors.  The  financial  goal  is 
$4,000,000  for  the  next  two  years,  and  $10,000,000  for  the  next  five  years. 

The  movement  includes  one  million  dollars  for  a  Preachers'  Pension 
Bureau. 

The  Home  Missionary,  Church  Erection  and  Foreign  Missionary 
Societies  at  their  meeting  in  Harrisburg,  December  3-6,  1919,  authorized 
underwriting  the  budget  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 


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OFFICERS   AND  COMMITTEES 

CHAPTER  XXV 

OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES  AND 
INTERCHURCH  DIRECTORY 

HEADQUARTERS:  45  WEST  18TH  ST.,  NEW  YORK  CITY 

OFFICERS  GENERAL  COMMITTEE 

Robert  Lansing,  Chairman 
Fred  B.  Smith,  Vice-Chairman 
WilHam  B.  Millar,  Secretary 
S.  Earl  Taylor,  General  Secretary 
George  M.  Fowles,  Treasurer 

GENERAL  COMMITTEE 


J.  Y.  Aitchison 
Mrs.  J.  S.  Allen 
Henry  J.  Allen 
Stonewall  Anderson 
W.  B.  Anderson 
Alfred  W.  Anthony 
Joseph  H.  Apple 
Henry  A.  Atkinson 
Mrs.  Anna  R.  Atwater 
F.  W.  Ayer 
John  WilHs  Baer 
E.  P.  Bailey 
Rhodes  S.  Baker 
A.  R.  Bartholomew 
W.  B.  Beauchamp 
Miss  Belle  H.  Bennett 
Mrs.  Fred  S.  Bennett 
Joseph  F.  Berry 
Edgar  Blake 
H.  A.  Boaz 
Henry  Bond 
Charles  D.  Bonsack 
Mrs.  Willaim  Boyd 
Gilbert  H.  Brink 


Fletcher  S.  Brockman 
Charles  A.  Brooks 
Arthur  J.  Brown 
C.  S.  Brown 
Frank  L.  Brown 
J.  W.  Brown 
Edmund  deS.  Brunner 
William  Jennings  Bryan 
P.  James  Bryant 
George  E.  Burlingame 
F.  W.  Burnham 
Miss  Nannie  H.  Burroughs 
Charles  E.  Burton 
Mrs.  John  S.  Bussing 
Miss  Helen  B.  Calder 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Campbell 
James  Cannon,  Jr. 
R.  A.  Carter 
James  H.  Causey 
William  I.  Chamberlain 
W.  Palmer  Clarkson 
George  W.  CHnton 
Miss  Eliza  P.  Cobb 
F.  G.  Cofhn 


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OFFICERS   AND   COMMITTEES 


L.  J.  Colman 
Mrs.  F.  G.  Cook 
William  C.  Covert 
Stephen  J.  Corey 
A.  E.  Cory 
Miss  Mabel  Cratty 
Mrs.  E.  C.  Cronk 
John  C.  Dancy 
Josephus  Daniels 
Dwight  H.  Day 
E.  L.  Day 

William  Horace  Day 
William  T.  Demarest 
Warren  H.  Dennison 
W.  R.  Dobyns 
WiUiam  E.  Doughty 
Frank  C.  Dunn 
John  J.  Eagan 
Lucius  R.  Eastmen 
David  M.  Edwards 
Mrs.  William  H.  Farmer 
Fred  B.  Fisher 
D.  D.  Forsyth 
Harry  E.  Fosdick 
William  Hiram  Foulkes 
A.  D.  P.  Gihnour 
W.  H.  C.  Gould 
C.  E.  Graham 
Ross  A.  Hadley 
Fred  P.  Haggard 
Ernest  F.  Hall 
John  W.  Hancher 
Ralph  S.  Harbison 
Abram  W.  Harris 
Mrs.  Ida  W.  Harrison 
William  I.  Haven 
John  R.  Hawkins 
Will  H.  Hays 
Miss  Mabel  Head 
Hugh  A.  Heath 
J.  W.  Heininger 
Hubert  C.  Herring 
Edgar  P.  Hill 


Miss  Margaret  E.  Hodge 

Robert  M.  Hopkins 

S.  S.  Hough 

George  B.  Huntington 

S.  G.  Inman 

George  Innes 

J.  Albert  Johnson 

Clyde  R.  Joy 

Robert  L.  Kelly 

J.  W.  Kinnear 

Mrs.  DeWitt  Knox 

A.  S.  Kreider 

William  E.  Lampe 

Walter  B.  Lasher 

Marion  Lawrance 

John  B.  Lennon 

R.  A.  Long 

I.  N.  McCash 

Mrs.  J.  H.  McCoy 

Francis  J.  McConnell 

W.  E.  McCuUoch 

Mrs.  Willaun  F.  McDowell 

W.  L.  McDoweU 

Homer  McMillan 

W.  F.  McMurry 

Charles  S.  Macfarland 

R.  E.  Magill 

John  T.  Manson 

Alfred  E.  Marling 

John  A.  Marquis 

L.  Wilbur  Messer 

R.  H.  Miller 

Carl  E.  Milliken 

James  H.  Mohorter 

Mrs.  W.  A.  Montgomery 

E.  C.  Morris 

John  R.  Mott 

G.  W.  Muckley 

Thomas  Nicholson 

A.  R.  Nicol 

Frank  Mason  North 

E.  E.  Olcott 

F.  W.  Padelford 


W.  G.  Parks 
Cornelius  H.  Patton 
Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody 
George  Wharton  Pepper 
C.  H.  Phillips 
W.  W.  Pinson 
Daniel  A.  Poling 
Charles  H.  Pratt 
Mrs.  Charles  Prescott 
H.  C.  Pritchard 
Joseph  C.  Robbins 
Raymond  Robins 
John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 
G.  M.  Rodefer 
G.  E.  Raitt 
F.  W.  Ramsey 
Lewis  T.  Reed 
Fleming  H.  Re  veil 
Leonard  W.  Riley 

C.  E.  Schaeffer 

H.  FrankHn  Schlegel 
L.  H.  Seager 
John  L,  Severance 
Charles  H.  Sears 
William  A.  Shanklin 
Frank  M.  Sheldon 

D.  C.  Shull 
A.  C.  Siddall 
F.  E.  Smith 


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OFFICERS    AND   COMMITTIES 

Mrs.  Theodore  G.  Soares 

Robert  E.  Speer 

James  M.  Speers 

J.  B.  Spilknan 

John  T.  Stone 

John  Timothy  Stone 

Wairen  S.  Stone 

Herman  F.  Swartz 

Henry  H.  Sweets 

Graham  Taylor 

David  W.  Teachout 

I.  A.  Thomas 

C.  H.  Tobias 

F.  P.  Turner 

James  I.  Vance 

W.  R.  Warren 

Charles  R.  Watson 

George  T.  Webb 

H.  H.  Weber 

Fred  A.  Wells 

Mrs.  Katherine  Westfall 

Thornton  Whaling 

Charles  L.  White 

J.  Cambpell  White 

Herbery  L.  Willett 

J.  H.  B.  Williams 

J.  O.  Winters 

Mrs.  May  Leonard  Woodruff 

M.  R.  Zigler 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 


John  R.  Mott 
William  Hiram  Foulkes 
William  B.  Millar 
George  M.  Fowles 
S.  Earl  Taylor 
Robert  Lansing 
Fred  B.  Smith 


Chairman 

Vice-Chairman 

Secretary 

Treasurer 

General  Secretary' 

Chairman  General  Committee 

Vice-Chairman  General  Committee 


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OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  {Cont'd) 

J.  Y.  Aitchison  John  A.  Marquis 

Joseph  H.  Apple  A.  R.  Nicol 

W.  B.  Beauchamp  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Peabody 

Mrs.  Fred  S.  Bennett  John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 

Mrs.  William  Boyd  D.  C.  Shull 

Frank  L.  Brown  Robert  E.  Speer 

William  I.  Chamberlain  James  M.  Speers 

A.  E.  Cory  Warren  S.  wStone 

D.  D.  Forsyth  H.  F.  Swartz 

Abram  W.  Harris  David  W.  Teachout 

John  R.  Hawkins  James  I.  Vance 

Hubert  C.  Herring  Charles  R.  Watson 

Miss  Margaret  E.  Hodge  Charles  L.  White 

CABINET 

S.  Earl  Taylor General  Secretary 

J.  Y.  Aitchison Associate  General  Secretary 

Abram  E.  Cory Associate  General  Secretary 

Miss  Mabel  Cratty Associate  General  Secretary 

William  E.  Doughty Associate  General  Secretary 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Farmer Associate  General  Secretary 

Fred  B.  Fisher Associate  General  Secretary 

William  H.  Foulkes Associate  General  Secretary 

George  M.  Fowles Associate  General  Secretary- 
Fred  P.  Haggard Associate  General  Secretary 

William  B.  Millar Associate  General  Secretary 

Daniel  A.  Poling Associate  General  Secretary 

J.  Campbell  White Associate  General  Secretary 

ADMINISTRATIVE  OFFICERS 

S.  Earl  Taylor,  General  Secretary 

Fred  P.  Haggard,  Group  Executive  for  Survey  Group 

William  B.  Millar,  Group  Executive  for  Auxiliary  Group 

Abram  E.  Cory,  Group  Executive  for  Promulgation  Group 

Daniel  A.  Poling,  Group  Executive  for  Educational  Group 

ORGANIZATION  AND  METHODS  UNIT 
John  H.  Williams 


Ill 

OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 

SURVEY  GROUP 

Fred  P.  Haggard,  Group  Executive 

F.  J.  Zimmerman,  Associate  Group  Executive 

M.  N.  Westcott,  Budget  Representative 

Exposition  Department 

(Not  fully  organized) 

P.  J.  Burrell,  Acting  Director 

Graphics  Department 

Lamont  A.  Warner,  Director 
E.  H.  Vogel,  Assistant  Director 
Architectural  Divison — P.  Schulke,  Superintendent 
Illustration  Division — ^James  F.  Young,  Superintendent 
Map  Division — ^H.  C.  Bartels,  Superintendent 

Lantern  Slide  Department 

Sumner  R.  Vinton,  Director 
Wallace  F.  Hatch,  Associate  Director 
Lecture  Creation  Division — Robert  Goldsmith,  Superintendent 
Moving  Picture  Division — H.  H.  Casselman,  Superintendent 

Moving  Picture  Service  Branch — A.  W.  Courtney,  Manager 
Photographic  Division — Hiram  G.  Conger,  Superintendent 

Photographic  Service  Branch — J.  A.  Brown,  Manager 
Productioji  Division — Lewis  B.  Newell,  Superintendent 

Coloring  Branch — Robert  P.  Gray,  Manager 

Order  Branch — 

Slide  Assembly  and  Binding  Branch— Miss  A.  Shaw,  Manager 

Photograph  Production  Branch — A.  R.  Savastano 

Research  and  Library  Department 
James  L.  Mursell,  Acting  Director 

Investigation  Division — 

Library  Division — Miss  Frances  Cummings,  Superintendent 

Research  Filing  Divisioti—Miss  Frances  Cummings,  Superintendent 

Statistical  Department 
W.  B.  Hollingshead,  Director 


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officers  and  comaottees 

Foreign  Survey  Department 

J.  F.  Zimmerman,  Acting  Director 
Assistant  in  Charge  of  Mission  Field,  J.  F.  Zimmerman,  Actihg 
Assistant  in  Charge  of  Foreign  Mission  Agencies,  J.  W.  Hawley 
Assistant  in  Charge  of  Coordination,  Eric  M.  North 

Africa  Survey  Division — Sydney  J.  L.  Crouch,  Superintendent 

Fred  R.  Bunker,  Superintendent 
China  Survey  Division — Frank  W.  Bible,  Superintendent 
Europe  Survey  Division — E.  F.  Fuessle,  Acting  Superintendent 
India  Survey  Division — W.  H.  Hannum,  Superintendent 
Latin-American  Survey  Division — S.  G.  Inman,  Superintendent, 

25  Madison  Avenue 
H.  E.  Jensen,  Assistant 
Southeastern  Asia  Survey  Division — W.  G.  Shellabear,  Superintendent 

Near  East  Survey  Division — Stanley  White,  Superintendent, 

156  Fifth  Ave. 

Philippine  Islands  Survey  Division — Harry  Farmer,  Supeiintendent 

R.  E.  Marshall,  Assistant 
Literature  Survey  Coordination  Division — Eric  E.  North,  Superintendent 
Educational  Survey  Coordination  Division — J.  S.  Seneker,  Superintendent 

Otto  Mayer,  Assistant 
Evangelistic  Survey  Coordination  Division — C.  J.  Howard,  Acting  Sup't 
Geographical  Survey  Coordination  Division — Samuel  W.  Boggs,  Sup't 
Medical  Survey  Coordination  Division — David  Bovaird,  Superintendent 

John  MacMurray,  Assistant 
Social  and  Industrial  Survey  Coordination  Division — To  be  appointed 


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officers  and  committees 

Home  Missions  Survey  Department 

R.  E.  Diffendorfer,  Director 

Henry  J.  Fry,  Assistant  Director 

Assistant  in  Charge  of  Home  Mission  Coordination — J.  S.  Stowell 
Assistant  in  Charge  of  Home  Mission  Agencies  Recommendations — 

W.  H.  Wilson 
City  Survey  Division— G.  G.  Hollingshead,  Superintendent 
New  York  Metropolitan  Survey  Division — H.  P.  Schauffler,  Supt. 
Town  and  Country  Survey  Division — E.  DeS.  Brunner,  Superintendent 
Outlying  Territories  Survey  Division — 

American  Indian  Coordination  Division — G.  E.  E.  Lindquist,  Supt. 
Migrant  Groups  Coordination  Division — C.  L.  Fry,  Superintendent 
New  Americans  Coordination  Division — C.  M.  Sears,  Superintendent 
Orientals  in  the  U.  S.  Coordination  Division — Geo.  W.  Hinman,  Supt. 
Spanish  Speaking  Peoples  in  the  U.  S.  Coordination  Division — 
American  Negro  Coordination  Division — C.  E.  Haynes 
Industrial  Relations  Coordination  Division — Howard  Gold 
American  Educational  Department — Robert  L.  Kelly,  Director. 

American  Educational  Coordination  Division — B.  Warren  Brown, 
Superintendent. 

Denominational  and  Independent  Educational  Institutions  Division 
— Calvin  H.  French,  Superintendent. 

Tax-Supported    Universities    and    Schools    Division — Richard  C. 
Hughes,  Superintendent,  19  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Theological  Seminaries  Division — Ozora  S.  Davis,  Superintendent, 
19  South  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 
American  Hospitals  and  Homes  Department — Frank  C.  English,  Director 
Ministerial  Support  and  Relief  Department — 

Joseph  B.  Hingeley,  Director 

Samuel  J.  Greenfield,  Assistant  Director 
American  Religious  Education  Department — 

Walter  S.  Athearn,  Director 

W.  N.  Hansen,  Assistant  Director 
Survey  Statistics  Department — 

R.  Kilbom,  Director 
Temperance  and  Moral  Welfare  Survey  Department 


114 

OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 

AUXILIARY  GROUP 

C.  C.  Miles,  Acting  Group  Executive 
G.  Vestervelt,  Budget  Representative 

Personnel  Department 
John  G.  Olmstead,  Acting  Director 

Placement  Division — John  G.  Olmstead,  Superintendent 
Men's  Branch — John  G.  Thorne,  Manager 
Women's  Branch — Mrs.  Charlotte  P.  Simpson,  Manager 
Records  Branch — J.  Frank  Cornelius,  Manager 

Health  Division — Mrs.  Cora  M.  Bowman,  Acting  Superintendent 

Sales  Department 

Herbert  L.  Hill,  Director 

Archer  E.  Hoffman,  Acting  Assistant  Director 

Office  Service  Department 
Charles  C.  Miles,  Director 

Storage  and  Forwarding  Department 
Charles  C.  Miles^  Director 

Treasury  Department 
George  M.  Fowles,  Director 
Richard  M.  Fowles,  Assistant  Director 
Accounting  Division — Louis  Smith,  Superintendent 
Aiidit  Division — George  K.  Cox,  Superintendent 
Receipt  Disbursement  Division — 

Purchase  Department 
S.  T.  Edgerton,  Acting  Director 
Negotiation  and  Contracting  Department — 
Information  and  Follow-Up  Department — 

PROMULGATION  GROUP 

Abram  E.  Cory,  Group  Executive 
A.  W.  Armour,  Associate  Group  Executive 
H.  C.  Sargent  Budget  Representative 

FIELD  DEPARTMENT 
Abram  E.  Cory,  Director 


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State  Organization  Division — L.  F.  Bower,  Superintendent 

G.  M.  Boyd,  Assistant 
County  Organization  Division — John  H.  Voris,  Superintendent 

T.  D.  Preston,  Assistant 
Church  Organization  Division — A.  E.  Isaac,  Superintendent 
Colored  Promotional  Division — W.  W.  Alexander,  Superintendent 

Adolphus  Lewis,  Associate  Superintendent 
Constituent  Relations  Division — E.  C.  Cronk,  Superintendent 
Women^s  Cooperation  Division — Mrs.  E.  C.  Cronk,  Superintendent 

Transportation  and  Accommodations  Division — A.  H.  Skean,  Superin 

tendent 
Speakers  Bureau  Division — Keith  Vawter,  Superintendent 

Hugh  Orchard,  Associate  Superintendent 

W.  L.  Symons,  Associate  Superintendent 

Conference  and  Convention  Branch —  Henry  H.  Welles 
Denominational  Meetings  Branch — 
Commercial  and  Secular  Branch — 
Schedides  and  Records  Division — Carl  Van  Winkle,  Superintendent 

Activities  Branch — Edna  Thompson,  Manager 

Enrolled  Workers  Branch — Mrs.  F.  M.  Webb,  Manager 

Mailing  Lists  Branch — George  L.  Leonard,  Manager 

Properties  Branch — 

Historical  Branch — 
Deputations  Division — Charles  H.  Pratt,  Superintendent 

J.  V.  Latirner,  Associate  Superintendent 
Travelers  Information  Division — 


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officers  and  committees 

Men  in  the  Field 

Alabama,  Grogan,  J.  O.,  Mezzanine  Floor,  Jefferson  County  Bank 
Bldg.,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Arizona,  Raley,  E.  D.,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Arkansas,  Kirkpatrick,  1114  A.  D.  U.  W.  Bldg.,  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

California,  Northern,  Briggs,  A.  H.,  856  Phelan  Bldg.,  San  Francisco, 
Calif. 

California,  Southern,  McGaughey,  J.  A.,  435  Van  Huys  Bldg.,  Los 
Angeles,  Calif. 

Colorado ,  Shuder  ,  H  .  A . ,  Edmundson  ,  G  .  R  . ,  400  Chamber  of  Commerce 
Bldg.,  Denver,  Colo. 

Connecticut,  Alling,  M.  R.,  226  Pearl  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Delaware,  Elliott,  R.  J.,  Bible  House,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Dist.  of  Columbia, 

Florida,  Dodge,  R.  D.,  721  Heard  Bldg.,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Georgia,  Brannen  D.  W.,  518  Peters  Bldg.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Idaho,  Harris,  C.  W.,  423  Empire  Bldg.,  Boise,  Idaho. 

Illinois,  DoBSON,  R.  C,  Room  1014,  19  S.  LaSalle  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Indiana,  Tullis,  Don.  D.,  309  Occidental  Bldg.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Iowa,  Best,  H.  R.,  Omohundro,  E.  H.,  Hotel  Sanford,  Omaha,  Neb. 

Kansas,  Clemmer,  Wm.  B.,  402  Mulvane  Bldg.,  Topeka,  Kansas. 

Kentucky,  Cree,  H.  J.,  loi  Todd  Bldg.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

Louisiana,  Sargent,  A.  H.,  303  U.  S.  Branch  Bldg.,  606  Common  St., 
New  Orleans,  La. 

Maine,  Brooks,  A.  J.,  312  Savings  Bank  Bldg.,  Waterville,  Maine. 

Maryland,  Elliott,  R.  J.,  Bible  House,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Massachusetts ,'H.ARVEY ,  Geo.  F.,  Room  425,  6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Michigan,  North,  Earl,  717  Book  Bldg.,  Detroit,  Michigan. 

Minnesota,  Hubbell,  Earl  B.,  211  Lumber  Exchange  Bldg.,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Mississippi,  Grogan,  J.  O.,  Mezzanine  Floor,  Jefferson  County  Bank 
Bldg.,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Missouri,  Downs,  Geo.  W.,  Room  1005,  21st  St.  and  Grand  Ave., 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Montana,  Edworthy,  B.  V.,  309  Silver  Bow  Block,  Butte,  Montana. 

Nebraska,  Best,  R.  H.,  Omohundro,  B.  H.,  Hotel  Sanford,  Omaha, 
Neb. 

New  Hampshire,  Tarney,  J.  Byron,  806  Amoskeag  Bank  Bldg.,  Man- 
chester, N.  H. 

New  Jersey,  Wilcox,  W.  W.,  411  Commonwealth  Bldg.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

New  Mexico,  Mills,  H.  R.,  24  Whiting  Bldg.,  Albuquerque,  New 
Mexico. 


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OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 

Men  in  the  Field  {Cont'd) 

Nevada,  Briggs,  A.  H.,  856  Phelan  Bldg.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

New  York,  Walker,  James  E.,  45  W.  i8th  Street,  New  York  City. 

North  Carolina,  Orr,  E.  N.,  221  Piedmont  Bldg.,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

North  Dakota,  Allison,  C.  V.,  13  A.  0.  U.  W.,  Bldg.,  Fargo,  No.  Dakota. 

Ohio,  Anderson,  Wm.  K.,  74  E.  Gay  Street,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Oklahoma,  Patterson,  N.  P.,  813  First  National  Bakn  Bldg.,  Okla- 
homa City,  Akla. 

Oregon,  Bronson,  B.  F.,  420  Piatt  Bldg.,  Portland,  Oregon. 

Pennsylvania,  Swartz,  Morris  R.,  202  North  Third  St.,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Rhode  Island,  Conant,  Hamilton  S.,  420  Caesar  Misch  Building, 
Providence,  R.  I. 

South  Carolina,  Gilbert,  H.  F.  ,  904  Nat'l  Loan  &  Exchange  Bank  Bldg. , 
Columbia,  S.  C. 

South  Dakota,  Hubbell,  Earl  B.,  211  Lumber  Exchange  Bldg.,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Tennessee,  Moore,  Jere.  A.,  309  Stahlman  Bldg.,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Texas,  Kurtzhalz,  Chas.,  Hadsell,  W.  L.,  613  Sumpter  Bldg.,  Dallas, 
Texas. 

Utah,  Alderman,  A.  G.,  412  Atlas  Bldg.,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Vermont,  McFarland,  Prof.  R.,  36  Battell  Block,  Middlebury,  Vt. 

Virginia,  Miles,  R.  W.,  806  Chamber  of  Commerce  Bldg.,  Richmond, 
Va. 

Washington,  Eastern  and  Northern  Idaho,  Fiske,  N.  M.,  Carpenter, 
W.  D.,  422  Peyton  Bldg.,  Spokane,  Wash. 

Washington,  Western,  Tippett,  E.  H.,  4030  Arcade  Bldg.,  Seattle, 
Washington . 

West  Virginia,  Ross,  F.  E.,  408-10  Prunty  Bldg.,  Clarksburg,  W.  Va. 

Wisconsin,  Dobson,  R.  C,  Room  1014,  19  S.  LaSallc  St..  Chicago,  Til. 

Wyoming,  Stewart,  A.  F.,  309  Silver  Bov  Block,  Butte,  Mont. 

Mobile  Men 

Alexander,  Dr.  W.  W.,  Cree,  H.  T.,  518  Peters  Bldg.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Palmquist,  E.  a.  E.,  Room  619,  6  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Michel,  F.  J.,  45  West  i8th  Street,    New  York  City. 

Hubbell,  Earl  B.,  211  Lumber  Exchange  Bldg.,  Minneapolis.  Minn. 

LaFlamme,  H.  F.,  45  West  i8th  Street,   New  York  City. 

Shaw,  H.  P..  45  West  i8th  Street,   New  York  City. 

Bachelor.  Frank  B.,   Room  1005,  21st  St.  and  Grand  Ave.,  Kansas 

City,  Mo. 
Talbott,  E.  Guy,  1437  Casa  Grand  St.,  Pasadena,  Calif. 


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officers  and  committees 

Literature  Department 

Stephen  J.  Herben,  Director 

Ilsley  Boone,  Associate  Director 

Editorial  Division — Frank  Chapin  Bray,  Superintendent 

Manufacturing  Division — Ilsley  Boone,  Superintendent 

Reading  Branch — J.  Rowell  Hewitt,  Manager 

Laymen's  Activities  Department 
Daniel  A.  Poling,  Director 

Women's  Activities  Department 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Farmer,  Director 

Young  Peoples'  Activities  Department 
R.  W,  Hall,  Director 

Publicity  Department 
Tyler  Dennett,  Director 

Advertising  and  Distributing  Department 
C.  S.  Clark,  Acting  Director 

Periodical  Department 
Willard  Price,  Director 

World  Outlook  Division — Willard  Price,  Superintendent 
Missionary  Branch — Miss  Adelaide  Lyons,  Manager  ' 
Secular  Branch — ^Horace  W.  ScandUn,  Manager 
Topical  Branch — Miss  Dorothy  Cocks,  Manager 
Reprint  Branch — Miss  Claudia  DuVail,  Manager 

Everyland  Division — Miss  Ethel  R.  Peyser,  Superintendent 
Missions  Branch — Mrs.  Alice  C.  Bryant,  Manager 
General  Branch — Miss  Henriette  Hofer,  Manager 


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OFFICERS   AND  COMMITTEES 

La  Nueva  Democracia  Division — Dr.  J.  Orts  Gonzales,  Superintendent 

Art  Division — J.  L.  G.  McMahon,  Superintendent 

World  Outlook  Make-up  Branch — Miss  Helen  Anderson,  Manager 
Everyland  Make-up  Branch — Miss  Genevieve  Russell,  Manager 
La  Nueva  Democracia  Make-up  Branch — Carlos  Charon,  Manager 

Financial  Division — David  C.  Davis,  Superintendent 

Subscription  Record  Branch — Mrs.  Carolyn  CarfoUte,  Manager 
Advertising  Branch — 
Manufacturing  Branch — 

Circulation  Division — Edgar  H.  Rue,  Superintendent 

World  Outlook  Subscription  Branch— Edgar  H.  Rue,  Manager 
Everyland  Subscription  Branch— Miss  Isabel  Doughty,  Manager 
La  Nueva  Democracia  Subscription  Branch — Carlos  Charon,  Man- 
ager. 


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OFFICERS   AND   COMMITTEES 

EDUCATION  GROUP 

Daniel  A.  Poling,  Group  Executive 

F.  W.  Wright,  Associate  Group  Executive 

F.  H.  Partridge,  Budget  Representative 

Industrial  Relations  Department 
Fred  B.  Fisher,  Director 
Research  Division — Robert  W.  Bruere,  Superintendent 

Agricultural  Labor  Branch — H.  Paul  Douglass,  Manager 
Cooperatives  Branch — Oscar  H.  McGill,  Manager 
Immigrant  in  Industry  Branch — C.  M.  Panunzio,  Manager 
History  of  Labor  in  Industry  Branch,  Mrs.  Gertrude  W.  Wilhams, 

Manager 
Governmental  Information  Branch — Clyde  F.  Armitage,  Manager 
Survey  Branch — H.  R.  Gold,  Manager 

Service  Division — Worth  M.  Tippy,  Superintendent 

Life  Work  Department, 

J.  Campbell  White,  Director 

Hugh  H.  Bell,  Associate  Director 

Missionary  Education  Department 
Miles  B.  Fisher,  Director 

Publications  Division — Franklin  D.  Cogswell,  Superintendent 
Conference  Division — G.  G.  Le  Sourd 

Spiritual  Resources  Department 

WilHam  E.  Doughty,  Director 

,        William  A.  Brown,  Associate  Director 

Bruce  B.  Corbin,  Associate  Director 

Lyman  P.  Powell,  Associate  Director 

Stewardship  Department 

Ralph  S.  Cushman,  Director 

Wade  C.  Smith,  Associate  Director 


121 

OFFICERS   AND  COMMITTEES 

LIST  OF  STATE  RURAL  SURVEY  SUPERVISORS 
INTERCHURCH  WORLD  MOVEMENT 


Alabama 
R.  M.  Archibald 

1416  Jefferson  County  Bank  Bldg. 
Birmingham,  Ala. 

Arizona 
S.  C.  Hoover 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Phoenix,  Arizona 

Arkansas 
G.  W.  Reid 
11  Pythian  Building 
Little  Rock,  Ark. 

Colorado 
Ora  Miner 
Platteville,  Colo. 

Flordia 
R.  E.  Tyler 
300  Hampton  Building 
Tampa,  Fla. 

Georgia 
H.  L.  Anderton 
517  Peters  Building 
Atlanta,  Ga. 

Illinois 
R.  H.  M.  Augustine 
510  Robeson  Building  ^ 
Champaign,  111. 

Indiana 

Marion  C.  Bishop 

309-310  Occidental  Building 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Iowa 
George  Van  Tungeln 
Iowa  State  College 
Ames,  Iowa 


Kansas 
Francis  M.  Leaman 
Manhattan,  Kansas 

Kentucky 
A.  O.  Stockbridge 
102  Todd  Building 
Louisville,  Ky. 

Louisiana 

F.  E.  Cholerton 
P.  0.  Box  695 
Baton  Rouge,  La. 

Maine 
J.  Harrison  Thompson 
312  Savings  Bank  Building 
Waterv'ille,  Me. 

Massachusetts 
E.  Tallmadge  Root 
6  Beacon  St.,  Room  407 
Boston,  Mass. 

MicmoAN 

W.  H.  Thompson 
414  Prudden  Building 
Lansin,  Micliigan 

Minnesota 

Albert  Z.  Mann 

211  Lumber  Exchange  Building 

Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Charles  J.  Bornman, 

Associate  Supervisor 
Northficld,  Minn. 

Mississippi 

G.  S.  Harmon 

205  Daniel  Building 
Jackson,  Miss. 


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OFFICERS   AND   COMMITTEES 


Missouri 
Alva  W.  Taylor 
Bible  College 
Columbia,  Mo. 

Montana 
Chas.  T.  Greenway 
State  Agricultural  College 
Bozeman,  Montana 

Nebraska 
Karl  W.  G.  Hiller 
203  Nebraska  State  Bank  Bldg. 
Lincoln,  Nebraska 

New  Jersey 
George  W.  Lawrence 
402  Commonwealth  Building 
Trenton,  N.  J. 

New  Mexico  and  El  Paso 
County,  Texas 
H.  R.  Mills 
24  Whiting  Building 
Albuquerque,  N.  M. 

New  York 
Henry  S.  Huntington,  Jr. 
Room  904,  70  Fifth  Ave. 
New  York  City 

Stacy  B.  D.  Belden,  Assistant 

Supervisor 
Franklin,  New  York 

North  Carolina 
George  J.  Ramsey 
503  Tucker  Building 
Raleigh,  N.  C. 

North  Dakota 
Anton  T.  Boisen 
P.  O.  682 

Fargo,  N.  D. 


Ohio 

B.  F.  Lamb 

521  Columbus  Savings  and  Trust 

Building 
Columbus,  Ohio 

A.  E.  Snider,  Asst.  Supervisor 
521  Columbus  Savings  and  Trust 

Building 
Columbus,  Ohio 

Oklahoma 
F.  W.  Jackson 
205  University  Library 
Norman,  Okla. 

Pennsylvania 
Irvin  E.  Deer 
10  S.  Market  Square 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Charles  A.  Gebert,  Assistant 

Supervisor 
10  S.  Market  Square 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 

South  Carolina 
J.  A.  J.  Brock 

904  Natl  Loan  &  Exch.  Bk  Bldg. 
Columbia,  S.  C. 

South  Dakota 

C.  O.  Bemies 
722  Eighth  Street 
Brookings,  S.  D. 

Tennessee 
Thomas  F.  Dixon 
Division  of  Extension 
University  of  Tennessee 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 

Texas 

Millar  Burrows 
College  Station,  Texas 
E.  J.  Lang 
College  Station,  Texas 


Virginia 
James  Buchanan 
806  Chamber  of  Commerce  Bldg. 
Richmond,  Va. 

West  Virginia 
L.  M.  Bristol 
408  Prunty  Building 
Clarksburg,  W.  Va. 

Western  Oregon 
John  D.  Rice 
420  Piatt  Building 
Portland,  Oregon 

Western  Washington 
Ira  A.  Morton 
4030  Arcade  Building 
Seattle,  Washington 

Wisconsin 
Edward  W.  Blakeman 
308  Agricultural  Hall,  University 

of  Wisconsin 
Madison,  Wisconsin 

Frank  E.  Wagg,  Asst.  Supervisor 
Agricultural  Hall,  University  of 

Wisconsin 
Madison,  Wisconsin 


Connecticut  and 
Rollo  A.  Kilburn 
226  Pearl  Street 
Hartford,  Conn. 


Rhode  Island 


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officers  and  committees 

Eastern  Oregon  and  Southern 

Idaho 
W.  H.  Hertzog 
632  Empire  Building 
Boise,  Idaho 

Eastern  Washington  and 
NoRTHEN  Idaho 
Nathan  M.  Fiske 
422  Peyton  Building 
Spokane,  Washington 

Maryland  and  Delaware 
Charles  F.  Scofield 
10  E.  Fayette  Street 
Baltimore,  Md. 

Nevada  and  Californlv 
J.  Clarence  Pinkcrton 
438  Van  Nys  Building 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

New   Hampshire    and   \'kkmont 
Chas.  O.  Gill 
Hartland,  Vermont 

Utah  and  Wyomlng 
A.  G.  Alderman 
412  Atlas  Building 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah 


E.  H.  Hawkins,  Assistant  Supervisor  of  Rural  Survey  for  the  South— 
1416  Jefferson  County  Bank  Building,  Birmingham,  Ala. 


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CHAPTER  XXVI 

GENERAL  TALKING  POINTS 

Relation  of  the  Federal  Council  Through  Its  Commission 
Upon  Interchurch  Federations  to  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  has  been 
officially  directed  to  give  attention  to  the  development  of  local  and 
state  interchurch  councils  or  federations,  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement  must  of  necessity  carry  on  practically  all 
its  field  work  through  groupings  of  the  same  character,  the  relationship 
of  the  two  at  this  particular  point  becomes  one  of  fundamental  im- 
portance. The  following  is  the  understanding  of  this  relationship  as 
developed  in  a  conference  in  which  Rev.  Charles  S.  Macfarland,  General 
Secretary  of  the  Federal  Council,  S.  Earl  Taylor,  General  Secretary  of  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement  and  Fred  B.  Smith,  Chairman  of  the 
Commission  on  Interchurch  Federations  of  the  Federal  Council  and 
also  Chairman  of  the  Convention  Committee  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement,  participated: 

First:  Both  the  Federal  Council  and  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement  are  seeking  earnestly  and  sincerely  the  development  of 
permanent  interchurch  councils  or  federations  in  the  states,  local 
communities  and  cities  of  the  whole  country,  and  in  view  of  this 
common  desire,  an  unusual  intimacy  is  to  be  maintained  upon  this 
point. 

Second:  The  Interchurch  World  Movement,  whenever  it 
approaches  any  given  state,  town  or  city,  will  seek  to  discover  what 
cooperative  movements  already  exist  among  the  churches  in  these 
places  and  where  they  are  of  a  worthy,  comprehensive  type,  will  in 
every  case  seek  to  cooperate  with  them.  One  of  the  following 
methods  being  pursued  as  the  special  issues  may  seem  to  warrant: 

1.  The  Interchurch  World  Movement  in  that  state,  city 
or  locality  to  be  carried  out  by  the  existing  federation. 

2 .  The  existing  federation  will  appoint  a  special  committee 
to  carry  out  the  plans  and  purposes  of  the  Interchurch  World 
Movement. 

3.  The  existing  federation  to  exercise  its  good  office  in 
calling  together  an  adequate  group  of  representatives  of  all  the 


125 

GENERAL   TALKING   POINTS — Cont. 

Churches  and  all  the  Christian  agencies  for  the  purpose  of 

organizing  a  special  Interchurch  World  Movement  Committee. 

Note:    These  principles  have  been  observed  in  the  platform 

and   pamphlet  utterances  of  the  Interchurch  Movement. 

Third:  The  Federal  Council  of  Churches,  through  its  Com- 
mission on  Interchurch  Federations,  and  indeed,  through  all  of  its 
Commissions,  on  its  part,  will  seek  to  protect  the  large  interest  of 
the  Interchurch  World  Movement  from  being  placed  in  the  hands 
of  inadequate  federations  and  through  them  subjected  to  executive 
leadership  which  would  be  impossible  upon  the  larger  program. 
This  in  recognition  of  the  existence  of  some  so-called  federations 
which  have  really  never  functioned  and  are  in  the  hands  of  incom- 
petent leaders. 

Fourth:  Both  the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ 
in  America  and  the  Interchurch  World  Movement  will  seek  during 
the  process  of  the  work  to  eliminate  sentiment,  or  special  anxiety 
concerning  prerogatives,  and  to  work  unitedly  for  the  best  interest 
of  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  the  larger  program  of  permanent 
cooperative  effort  in  Protestant  Christianity;  each  being  ready 
to  modify  plans  at  any  time  when  this  larger  ideal  seems  to  demand 
such  revision. 

Knocking  the  Church 
If  you  took  all  church  members  ofT  the  boards  of  directors  of  the 
great  social  service  agencies  would  there  be  many  names  left?  The 
Church  is  the  mother  of  hospitals,  nursing,  child  care,  social  settlements 
and  other  philanthropic  and  humanitarian  movements.  If  there  were 
no  church  none  of  these  agencies  would  exist . 

The  Greenhut  Building 
Not  even  the  Government's  use  of  the  Greenhut  building  as  a 
debarkation  hospital  gave  it  the  fame  it  acquired  through  its  lease  by  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement.  The  ten-year  lease  at  an  annual  rental 
of  $350,000  has  been  criticised  as  a  piece  of  wildest  extravagance.  It 
represents,  in  fact,  the  biggest  single  economy  effected  by  the  Movement, 
and  one  of  which  any  commercial  organization  might  well  be  proud. 
As  Dr.  George  M.  Fowles,  Treasurer  of  the  Movement,  pointed  out  in 
response  to  a  query  at  the  Atlantic  City  Conference,  space  is  so  difficult 
to  get  in  New  York,  that  at  the  time  of  the  lease  of  the  Greenhut  building, 
the  staff  was  in  ten  different  places,  for  which  it  was  necessary  to  pay 
up  to  three  and  four  dollars  a  square  foot.  We  are  getting  the  Greenhut 
building  at  70  cents  a  square  foot. 


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So  attractive  was  the  deal  that  at  any  time  a  sub-lease  could  be 
made  at  a  profit.  The  Movement  is  paying  at  the  rate  of  $70,000  per 
floor,  and  has  already  had  an  offer  of  $100,000.  This  would  mean  a 
profit  to  the  Movement,  if  it  cared  to  sell,  of  $1,500,000,  not  a  bad 
margin  on  a  transaction  of  $3,500,000.  The  economy  and  other  ad- 
vantages of  having  all  departments  of  the  Movement  in  one  building 
are  self-evident.  With  all  the  facts  before  one,  the  lease  of  the  Greenhut 
building  becomes  an  eye-opener,  not  of  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment's extravagance  but  of  its  magnitude,  and  the  solid  judgment  with 
which  its  finances  are  managed. 

Fewer  Wheels 

Whatever  unifies,  simplifies.  One  of  the  prime  objects  of  the 
Interchurch  World  Movement  is  to  decrease  machinery.  Wherever 
possible  it  utilizes  city  federations  and  other  existing  organizations. 
It  is  a  clearing  house  for  evangelical  denominations.  It  organizes  a 
cooperative  force.  For  the  biggest  possible  job  it  provides  the  fewest 
possible  wheels. 

Striking  Sayings  at  Atlantic  City 

"God  has  done  as  much  in  the  last  five  years  as  in  a  hundred,  so 
we  must  quicken  our  pace."  — John  R.  Mott. 

"Now  we  have  solid  ground  under  our  feet  for  the  first  time. 
*  *  *  This  day  has  given  us  to  believe  we  will  not  fight  among 
ourselves,  but  will  work  together.  We  are  within  striking  distance  of 
victory."  — S.  Earl  Taylor. 

"If  this  movement  is  not  of  God  it  ought  to  fail;  if  it  is  of  God, 
nothing  can  stop  it."  — Abram  E.  Cory. 

"The  World  Survey  Conference  is  a  substantial  beginning  upon  a 
great  world  program. 

"If  jealousy  and  suspicion  are  allowed  to  creep  in,  the  Movement 
will  be  disrupted.  Such  a  possibility  is  unthinkable  in  a  movement 
in  which  everyone  is  a  Christian,  pledged  to  work  for  God." 

— John  D.  Rockefeller,  Jr. 


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CHAPTER  XXVII 

ADVERTISING  AND  DISTRIBUTION 
DEPARTMENT 

Function  of  the  Department 

It  is  the  function  of  the  Advertising  and  Distribution  Department 
to  arrange  for  the  presentation  of  the  Movement  through  paid  advertise- 
ments, and  to  make  contracts  for  and  supervise  the  insertion  of  adver- 
tising matter. 

To  coordinate,  plan  and  arrange  for  the  creation,  display  and  dis- 
tribution of  free  promotional  literature  (posters,  booklets,  circulars, 
programs,  etc.),  and  lantern  slides  and  other  properties.  To  formulate 
plans  covering  the  character  and  standard  of  literature,  lantern  slides 
and  other  properties  required  for  educational  campaigns. 

To  pass  upon  requests  for  literature,  lantern  slides,  etc.,  before 
expense  may  be  incurred  in  their  preparation  and  to  determine  in  co- 
operation with  the  issuing  unit,  in  the  light  of  all  availal)le  data,  the 
quantity  to  be  created,  the  minimum  to  be  carried  in  stock,  if  any,  the 
point  of  delivery  and  to  see  that  these  requirements  are  properly  entered 
upon  such  requisitions  as  are  authorized. 

To  be  responsible  for  the  effective  distribution  of  literature,  slides, 
etc.  To  organize  and  supervise  the  necessary  local  and  traveling  forces 
of  operators  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  program  in  connection  with 
the  stereopticon  views. 

Cooperation  of  State  Secretaries 

State  secretaries  can  cooperate  efficiently  by  promptly  advising  the 
Advertising  and  Distribution  Department  the  quantity  of  literature, 
pamphlets,  booklets,  and  publicity  supplies  and  materials  which  they 
can  distribute  to  advantage. 

The  Advertising  Plans 

The  plans  of  the  Advertising  Department  provide  for  a  series  of 
twelve  advertisements  in  the  monthly  and  weekly  religious  publications, 
starting  with  a  series  of  stewardship  advertisements  in  Kel)ruary. 

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  in  the  March  and  April  magazines 
of  general  circulation,  including  two  double  spreads  and  two  single 
pages  in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post.    The  metropolitan  daily  newspapers 


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will  carry  special  copy  upon  the  subject  of  stewardship  in  February,  to 
be  followed  with  a  series  of  ten  advertisements  in  March  and  April  in 
the  daily  and  weekly  newspapers  throughout  the  country. 

Distribution  of  Publicity  Supplies  and  Materials 

Publicity  supplies  and  materials  including  pamphlets  and  literature 
will  be  distributed  at  the  Pastors'  state  conferences  and  at  the  county 
conferences.  Plans  for  the  distribution  of  posters  and  supplies  for  the 
Financial  Campaign  will  be  announced  from  the  offices  of  the  state 
secretaries  and  state  campaign  managers. 

Literature 

The  policy  of  literature  distribution  for  the  present  will  be  as  follows: 
Each  state  office  will  be  supplied  with  samples  of  all  the  Inter- 
church  World  Movement  literature  which  is  available  for  free  distri- 
bution. Sufficient  quantities  of  the  promotional  literature  will  be 
furnished  the  state  secretary  for  his  personal  use,  and  so  he  may  include 
various  enclosures  in  the  letters  which  he  is  sending  out  from  day  to  day. 
State  secretaries  should  notify  C.  S.  Clark,  Acting  Director  of  Advertising 
and  Distribution,  43  West  i8th  St.,  New  York,  of  the  quantity  of  such 
free  literature  needed. 

When  a  large  quantity  of  literature  is  desired  by  an  individual  or  for 
a  conference  or  church  meeting  within  the  state,  it  should  be  ordered 
through  Mr.  Clark.    Literature  will  be  sent  in  quantity  only  on  orders. 


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SALES    DEPARTMENl 


CHAPTER  XXVIII 
SALES  DEPARTMENT 

Why  Needed 

In  planning  the  organization  of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement 
it  was  desired  to  have  just  one  place  to  which  should  go  all  orders  for 
purchases  from  any  department  of  the  Movement.  For  this  purpose 
the  Sales  Department  was  created. 

Present  Scope 

At  the  present  time  the  Sales  Department  is  handling  the  text  books 
and  all  other  books  and  literature  formerly  sold  by  the  Missionary 
Education  Movement,  and  all  literature  that  is  for  sale  for  all  depart- 
ments of  the  Interchurch  World  Movement.  A  Lantern  Slide  Depart- 
ment for  the  rental  of  lantern  slides  will  be  opened  soon,  due  notice 
of  which  will  be  given  by  sending  out  a  list  of  the  lectures  for  rent,  terms, 
etc.  It  is  the  plan  of  this  department  to  gradually  open  depositories  in 
several  of  the  principal  cities  of  the  country  for  the  rental  of  lantern 
slides  and  the  sale  of  stereopticon  lanters. 

We  are  now  prepared  to  fill  orders  for  stereopticon  lanterns,  moving 
picture  machines,  etc.,  and  will  be  glad  to  receive  any  inquiries  regar<ling 
prices  from  persons  desiring  information  or  to  purchase  machines. 

Sales  Representatives  at  Conferences 

At  many  of  the  conferences  held  by  the  Interchurch  World  Move- 
ment throughout  the  country,  a  representative  of  the  Sales  Department 
goes  as  one  of  the  team.  His  special  functions  are  to  sell  text  books, 
take  orders  for  literature  of  all  kinds,  secure  subscriptions  to  World 
Outlook  and  Everyland  and  be  a  general  source  of  information. 

Where  to  Send  Orders 

All  orders  for  material,  or  inquiries  concerning  same,  should  be 
addressed  to  Interchurch  World  Movement.  Sales  Department.  45  West 
1 8th  Street,  New  York  City. 


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CHAPTER  XXX 

FORWARD  MOVEMENTS  AND  OFFICERS 
IN  CHARGE 

ASSOCIATE  REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN 

Rev.  F.  Y.  Pressly,  Chairman  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
Due  West,  South  Carolina 

NORTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTION 

New  World  Movement 

Rev.  J.  Y.  Aitchison,  General  Director 
200  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

THE  BRETHREN  CHURCH 

Committee  on  Interchurch  Cooperation 

Rev.  J,  Allen  Miller, 
*  Ashland,  Ohio 

THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  BRETHREN 

Five  Year  Forward  Movement 

Rev.  Charles  D.  Bonsack,  Director 
Elgin,  Illinois 

UNITED  BRETHREN 

United  Enlistment  Movement 

Rev.  S.  S.  Hough,  Executive  Secretary 
416  Otterbein  Press  Bldg.,  Dayton,  Ohio 

CHRISTIAN  CHURCH 

The  Forward  Movement 

Rev.  Warren  H.  Dennison,  Superintendent 
27  C.P.A.  Bldg.,  Dayton,  Ohio 


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CHURCHES  OF  GOD 

Centennial  Forward  Movement 

Rev.  J.  L.  Updegraph,  Field  Secretary 
8i8  Cory  St.,  North,  Findlay,  Ohio 

CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH 

Congregational  World  Movement 

Rev.  Herman  F.  Swartz,  General  Secretary 
287  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

DISCIPLES  OF  CHRIST 

Men  and  Millions  Movement 

Rev.  Abram  E.  Cory,  Secretary 

45  West  i8th  St.,  New  York  City 

Mr.  Henry  G.  Bowden,  Associate  Secretary 

222  West  Fourth  St.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 

EVANGELICAL  ASSOCIATION 

Forward  Movement 

Bishop  Lawrence  H.  Seager,  Executive  Secretary 

Napierville,  Illinois 

Rev.  J.  R.  Niergarth,  Assistant  Executive  Secretary 

245  North  Monroe  St.,  Bay  City,  Michigan 

EVANGELICAL  UNITED 

Our  Forward  Movement 

Bishop  W.  F.  Heil,  Campaign  Director 

iio7>^  Turner  St.,  Allentown,  Pennsylvania 

Bishop  M.  T.  Maze,  Campaign  Director 

Lemars,  Iowa 

Rev.  H.  Franklin  Schlegel,  Chairman  Executive  Committee 

449  West  Chestnut  St.,  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania 

Rev.  E.  S.  Woodring,  Secretary 

446  East  Broad  St.,  Tamaqua,  Pa. 


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FRIENDS  IN  AMERICA 

l^he  Forward  Movement 

Rev.  Levi  T.  Pennington,  Director 
loi  South  Eighth  St.,  Richmond,  Indiana 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL 

Centenary  Conservation  Program 

Rev.  D.  D.  Forsyth,  Chairman 

1 701  Arch  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

S.  Earl  Taylor,  General  Secretar}^ 

III  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

Rev.  Edgar  Blake,  General  Secretary 

III  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

Rev.  John  W.  Hancher,  Associate  General  Secretary 

58  East  Washington  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois 

Rev.  Christian  F.  Reisner,  Associate  General  Secretary 

131  West  104th  St.,  New  York  City 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL,  SOUTH 

Centenary  Conservation  Program 

Rev.  W.  B.  Beauchamp,  General  Secretary 

810  Broadway,  Nashville,  Tennessee 

METHODIST  PROTESTANT 

The  Increase  Campaign 
Rev,  Crates  S.  Johnson,  Executive  Secretary 
507  Pittsburg  Life  Bldg.,  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania 

METHODIST,  WESLEYAN 

Forward  Movement 

Rev.  E.  F.  McCarty,  Executive  Secretary 

330  East  Onondaga  St.,  Syracuse,  New  York 

MORAVIAN  CHURCH 

Larger  Life  Campaign 

Rev.  John  S.  Romig,  Secretary 

1411  North  17th  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 


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PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S. 

Presbyterian  Progressive  Program 

Rev.  William  Fred  Galbraith,  Secretary 

407  Times  Bldg.,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee 

Rev.  S.  Walter  McGill,  Campaign  Manager 

Times  Bldg.,  Chattanooga,  Tennessee 

Rev.  A.  D.  P.  Gilrnour,  Chairman 

158  West  Hampton  Ave.,  Spartanburg,  South  Carolina 

PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S.  A. 

New  Era  Movement 

Rev.  William  Hiram  Foulkes,  General  Secretary 
156  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 
Rev.  Barclay  Acheson,  Associate  General  Secretarv 
156  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City 

CUMBERLAND  PRESBYTERIAN 

Educational  Endowment  Commission 

Mr.  F.  A.  Seagle,  Secretary-Treasurer 

Cumberland  Presbyterian  Educational  Endowment  Commission 

Chattanooga,  Tennessee 

UNITED  PRESBYTERIAN 
The  New  World  Movement 

Rev.  George  E.  Raitt,  General  Secretary 

United  Presbyterian  Publication  Bldg.,  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania 

Rev.  J.  Alvin  Orr,  Chairman 

N.  S.,  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania 

REFORMED  CHURCH  IN  AMERICA 
Progress  Campaign 

Rev.  W.  I.  Chamberlain,  General  Secretary 

25  East  22nd  St.,  New  York  City 

Rev.  Theodore  F.  Bayles,  Executive  Secretary 

25  East  22nd  St,,  New  York  City 


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THE  REFORMED  CHURCH  IN  THE  U.  S. 

Forward  Movement 

Rev.  Joseph  H.  Apple,  Executive  Secretary 

15th  and  Race  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

Rev.  William  E.  Lampe,  Secretary  of  Commission 

15th  and  Race  Sts.,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania 

SEVENTH  DAY  BAPTIST 

New  Forward  Movement 

Mr.  Walton  H.  Ingham,  Director  General 

Fort  Wayne,  Indiana 

Rev.  Edwin  Shaw,  Secretary 

Plainfield,  New  Jersey 


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